Forbidden Desires

Chapter Three: Tender Care

Klaus Mikaelson

I pulled open my bedroom door and headed for the staircase. I hoped up onto the banister and slid all the way down landing perfectly on my feet when I reached the bottom. I headed into the kitchen and found my younger siblings inside.

Kol was sitting on top of the kitchen counter wearing a black running suit and panting like there was no tomorrow as he held a bottom of water in his hand.

My younger sister Rebekah was circling items in a magazines and Elijah as always was doing the crossword in the newspaper.

"Good morning family" I said cheerfully as I walked in.

"Someone is in a good mood" Kol commented as I took a bottle of orange from the fridge.

"And why wouldn't I be in a good mood, it's a nice day and my family is together" I said.

"You must have had some pretty great sex last night then" Kol said.

"Oh shut up Kol" Rebekah told him.

"Well I am happy for our brother Rebekah, now you can both be whores together" Kol said.

"When will you two get along?" I asked as I poured myself a glass of juice.

"I think in a thousand years they'll be at least smiling at each other" Elijah said.

I laughed and downed my glass.

"But seriously Nik, why the good mood?" Kol asked.

I smirked "Today is a good day" I said remembering Caroline saying the exact same thing yesterday.

"What does that mean?" Kol called behind me as I left the kitchen.

I was keeping my word to Caroline and not breathing a word about her to any of my family. What Caroline had between us was no one's business.

As I walked outside over to my car I remembered the previous night and dropping Caroline off at her house. She had said that tonight wasn't a date so I wasn't going to get a kiss even though there was nothing I wanted more. Caroline must have sneezed about twenty times on the way back to her house. I would have to see her at some point today and find out how she was doing.

"Nik" Rebekah called from behind me as I made my into my car.

When I shut the car door I turned and found Rebekah sitting on the passenger seat.

"What do you want Rebekah?" I asked.

"I want a lift into town and we have to talk about our little pressing matter of the white oak tree" she answered.

I rolled my eyes and started up the car shooting straight down the pathway away from the house.

"I noticed you haven't told Elijah about our discovery"

"That's because Elijah doesn't have to know about it" I told her.

"I suppose, but we have to find that tree Nik and soon"

Rebekah's reminder of how the world around me could be coming to end was killing my buzz. I didn't want to look for the tree or be driving her into town. I wanted to be talking to Caroline and asking her about our second non date.

Maybe if I focused all my energy on seeing Caroline today then it would overcome Rebekah 's ramblings.

"You were late coming in last night" Rebekah commented.

"Since when did I have a bedtime?" I asked.

"Don't play games with me Nik, I know you too well and I know something's going on that you're not telling me about"

Thankfully I found a parking space and had an excuse not to answer her.

"I'm going to go shopping, have a nice day" Rebekah said as she got out of the car.

I rolled my eyes and pushed my keys into my pocket as I got out of the car.

I walked through the town square and watched the town's people taking down all the decorations from last nights party. I clocked eyes on my doppelganger Elena and her blonde human friend Matt.

I needed to be sure that neither of them had saw Caroline and I last night watching the fireworks together and so I began listening in to their conversation as I walked past them as they folded up table covers from the picnic benches.

"Thanks for coming down Elena"

"It's no problem I had two free periods and Alaric's having a nap in the house so I didn't want to disrupt him"

"I did try and call Caroline but her cell was turned off"

"Oh yeah I forgot to tell you, she called me this morning before school"

"She ok?"

"No last night we were right she really did look off colour, she's as sick as a dog"

"That sucks"

"Tell me about it, I offered to go over there and help but you know what she's like she doesn't like people taking care of her"

"Still maybe we should go over there"

"Well I have to get back to school soon and so do you, besides tonight I am going to be listening in on a founding families meeting to see if there's an update on the murders and you have a shift don't you?"

"Yeah I do. She'll be fine she's strong"

None of them were going over to visit her? She didn't like to be taken care of when she was sick? Well that was about to change.

I would be hitting a few stores and then making my way over to her house.

Caroline Forbes

I reached over to my nightstand in search of tissues and found the box empty. Why did I have to get sick? I was a good person and I didn't deserve to be sick. Maybe it was gods way of punishing me for going out with Klaus. It was a non date it wasn't suppose to mean anything.

My mum had gone by the time I got home last night. I had been up most of the night, one minute I was hot the next I was cold and my nose was all runny and gross.

I didn't like people around me when I was sick but still it wouldn't have killed my friends to call my house to check up on me. I wouldn't have minded a phone call, I just didn't like people seeing me when I was sick. And even more when I hadn't showered.

My doorbell went and I pulled my covers over my head.

"Go to hell" I whispered.

It rang again.

"Go to hell, go to hell, go to hell" I repeated.

When it rang again I growled. I threw my bed cover off me and pulled the hood on my robe on over my head. I was wearing these big thick grey socks, pink pj bottoms with white leg warmers on over them and the biggest white cotton robe you could ever imagine.

I kept my head down as I walked towards the door with the hood blocking the sunlight from outside.

I unlocked the doorway and pulled open the door.

"What!" I said keeping my eyes firmly on the ground.

"Is that the way you normally answer the door or am I just lucky"

"Oh no" I groaned.

Klaus laughed.

"What are you doing here?" I asked still keeping my eyes firmly on the ground.

"Well a little bird told me you were sick and I thought you could use some company"

"Well that little bird is lying because one I am perfectly fine and two I don't like company" I said then sneezed twice in a row.

"Caroline" Klaus said and I sighed.

"Look, I haven't showered and I feel gross and you being here and smelling like a god doesn't help matters"

"First of all thank you for the compliment" Klaus said.

I smiled.

"Second of all you don't smell bad and third I'm going to take care of you whether you want me to or not" he said.

I sighed and pulled the hood off my head and slowly looked up meeting his eyes.

"Your still the same girl from last night" he told me smiling.

"Quit trying to seduce me" I warned him.

I looked down to his chest where he held two large brown bags.

"What's in the bags?" I asked.

"Supplies" Klaus asked and pushed past me walking straight into my house.

"Hey" I whined as I closed the door.

"You cant just walk into people's houses" I told him as I followed him into my kitchen.

"Got the innovation already love" Klaus said as he put the bags on top of the counter.

"Klaus look I get that you're trying to be supportive but I am not in the mood right now" I whined as I leaded against the counter.

"I know you can be a brat Caroline" Klaus said as he placed his hand on my forehead.

"Your hands are lovely" I said as they cooled my forehead.

"Well of course they do you're cooking like a chicken"

I laughed.

Klaus hand dropped from my forehead and he began going through the bags in front of him.

"Why are you here?" I asked.

"I'm here to make you a deal" Klaus said and pulled out a box of tissues.

"A deal? With you?" I asked.

Klaus opened the box and handed me a tissue.

"That's right, here's the deal. You let me stay and take care of you and in return this will go down as the second non date I wanted. I won't ask for another, unless you want me too"

I smirked.

"Why would you want to be here? I mean come on" I said looking down at my gross and big fat clothes.

"Because you told me to try and understand people. And right now I understand that your sick and embarrassed because you don't like being taken care of. You might be a brat Caroline but the only way your getting me out of this house is be forcefully removing me. And by the way the looks of it, you can barely stand"

I smiled.

"You don't have be embarrassed with me love" Klaus said meeting my eyes.

"You've been waiting for me to get sick haven't you? So you can finally make your move"

Klaus laughed "Yeah you've caught me love, what really turns me on is a fever and red nose" he said and turned back around to the bags in front of him.

I sighed "Well what are you going to do then?" I asked actually curious about what was in the bags.

"Well, I am going to start by running you a bath so you can finally relax, then I'm gonna make you better again"

"You have some sort of spell in there" I asked going up onto my tippy toes to try and see inside the bags.

"No" Klaus laughed.

Klaus Mikaelson

I poured the lavender bubble bath lotion that I had bought in town into the bath I was running for Caroline while she picked out some pjs to put on after her bath. I found some towels in the cabinet and I sat them on the counter top next to the bath. I checked the bath water temperature before leaving the bathroom.

"I still think this is some sort of plan to see me naked" Caroline called from her bedroom as I made my way back into the kitchen.

"Would it make you feel better if you locked me in the kitchen until you were out?" I called back.

"You're a hybrid you would break the door down"

"Well then I guess you're just gonna have to trust me love" I told her.

"Fine, I'm going into the bathroom now so don't kill anyone while I'm in the tub"

"I'll do my best"

I began unpacking the bags when I heard the bathroom door shut. I pulled out all the vegetables that I had picked up in the market from one bag and then in the other I brought out an extra box of tissues, thermometer and two sets of lavender candles.

I took the second bag full of supplies into Caroline's bedroom. I walked into her room and laughed seeing the amount of teddy bears that covered her bed. I put the bag down next to her television and turned to the bed and began fixing everything. I straighten up the pillows and untangled her cover and made the bed up. I lined up her teddy bears on top of her pillows last.

I walked over to the bag and brought out the candles first. I sat two on one of her nightstands and I lit them. I put the other two on top of her dresser and lit them too. I then took out the thermometer and tissues and sat them on her other nightstand.

I folded up the now empty bag and went back into the kitchen. I put the empty bag into the bin. I turned to the next bag then.

"Klaus?" Caroline called.

I left the kitchen and down the hall to the bathroom door.

"You alright love?" I asked.

"I left my shampoo in my bedroom, uh would you mind getting it for me?"

"You leave your shampoo in your room?" I asked smiling.

"My mum steals mine when I leave it in here"

I laughed "Alright, where is it?" I asked.

"Top drawer of my dresser, it will be sitting at the right side" she called to me.

"Ok" I agreed and walked down the hall and back into her bedroom.

I walked around her bed to her dresser. I paused when I reached the drawers when I found a picture of Caroline hugging an older gentlemen in it. The photo frame had Dad written on it. So this was Mr Forbes, Caroline had his eyes. She looked so happy in this picture.

"Did you find it ok?" Caroline called.

"Uh yeah" I said and went into the drawer and fished out a yellow bottle of shampoo.

I walked back down the hall towards the door.

"Close your eyes!" Caroline said as I reached for the handle.

I rolled my eyes but did what she asked and covered them.

"If you let me bump into something I'll drop my hand" I warned her as I opened the door.

"Ok, walk straight"

I walked straight.

"Now turn to your left"

I did so.

"Ok your here" Caroline told me.

I reached my hand out handing her the shampoo and when she reached for it I felt her hot wet skin brush against mine.

"Was that everything?" I asked.

"Thanks"

"No problem" I said keeping my hand over my eyes as I walked out the way I had came.

"Klaus watch the"

"Ouch" I said as I forehead smacked against something.

"Door" Caroline said as I made my way into the hall.

"Thanks for the heads up love" I told her as I left I closed the bathroom door behind me.

Caroline Forbes

I left the bathroom wearing a white cotton jumper and a pair of baby pink three quarter length pj bottoms. My hair was damp and I decided to air dry it. As soon as I stepped out into the hallway I could smell something. Something so mouth watering that I just had to follow it.

I thought today could not possibly get anymore strange than it already was. I mean Klaus had made me a bubble bath, the same man who had tried to kill my friends and had turned Tyler into a hybrid. And he had actually made me a bubble bath. But yet it got even stranger still.

I walked into the kitchen to find Klaus cooking. He was in my kitchen dressed in a white shirt and dark blue jeans, the sleeves of his shirt rolled up as he stood over my kitchen stove. Klaus looked over his shoulder at me and smirked.

"Nice bath?" he asked.

"Yeah it was good" I said as I walked further into the room.

"Your cooking?" I asked.

"Nothing seems to get passed you love" Klaus teased.

Klaus turned around and faced me "It's a soup I use to have made when I was human and sick, over the years its became a good send to me" he told me.

"Well it seems pretty great"

"It will make you better by tomorrow" he said walking towards me.

"How can you be so sure? Are you sure your not using some sort of spell?" I asked as Klaus reached for me and began turning me around.

Klaus laughed "Hybrid love not a witch" he said his hands on my shoulder as he guided me down the hall.

"Wow, sure didn't look this way last time I saw it" I said when we got to my bedroom doorway.

"Trust me the scent of the candles and the soup are going to work wonders" Klaus said as he passed me and went into my room.

I watched him pull back my covers before turning around and looking over at me.

"Seriously?" I asked.

"What?" Klaus asked smiling.

"You've made me soup, you've tided up my entire bedroom, you've made me probably the best bubble bath I've ever had" I told him.

Klaus shrugged.

"Last week I wanted nothing more than to kill you" I admitted.

"And three weeks ago I wanted nothing more than to kill you" Klaus admitted as I walked over to him.

"So this is when this started huh, this little thing for me. Three weeks ago?" I asked climbing into bed.

Klaus smirked "Well sadly the soup didn't help me get over it" he said as he pulled my cover over the top of me.

Klaus went to leave the room.

"Wait" I said.

Klaus turned around.

"It happened here?" I asked.

Klaus shrugged.

"That night I was bitten? I was covered in that infection thing I was gross"

"You just don't see what I see" Klaus said shrugging.

Klaus left the room and went back down the hall into the kitchen.

I reached over to my nightstand and picked up the remote for my television. I switched on the television which was on the table across from my bed. I had a built in DVD player and I turned that on too and it began playing the movie I had put in the player last night.

Klaus came into my room again, this time carrying a tray with a bowl of soup on it with a side of bread on the side cut up into triangles and a glass of water with two painkillers on a little dish right next to the glass.

Klaus looked at the television screen and read the title on the screen.

"Bambi?" Klaus said confused.

"Don't knock it, I always watched this when I was home sick from school when I was a kid" I told him.

"And now when you're an adult too" Klaus said sitting the tray onto my lap gently.

"What's the matter? Don't you like Bambi?" I asked him.

"Wouldn't know love, never seen it before"

My jaw dropped "How could you have never seen Bambi?" I asked stunned.

Klaus simply shrugged.

"Well you're gonna have to watch it now, I cant believe you've never seen it"

"Alright" Klaus said and went to sit on a chair next to my bed.

"You can sit with me, I mean if you don't mind the red nose" I said to him.

Klaus laughed, I watched him walk around to the other side of my bed. Klaus kicked off his shoes and sat down next to me. I picked up my spoon and took a spoonful of the soup. Klaus was right it really was delicious.

"So what's the movie about?" Klaus asked.

"Great soup" I said.

Klaus smiled "Glad you like it love" he said.

I dipped the bread into the soup and eat some more before answering.

"It's about this little deer called Bambi and what happens to him while he is growing up in the forest" I answered.

I took a few more spoonfuls.

"I still cant believe you've never seen Bambi" I said shaking my head causing Klaus to laugh.

Ten minutes later I had finished my soup and Klaus had taken away the tray while I took my painkillers.

"Don't you just love him, I mean look at his little legs" I said watching Bambi on the screen as Klaus returned from the kitchen.

Klaus smiled and came over to my side and pushed my hair back.

"What are you doing?" I asked panicked.

"Taking your temperature" Klaus said laughing.

"Oh thank god" I said pressing my hand against my chest.

"If I was going to kill you love I would have put something in the soup" Klaus said as I felt something cold slowly going into my ear.

"Is there anymore of the soup left?" I asked.

Klaus smirked "I've left some in the fridge" he told me.

"Who ever thought you could be like this" I said out loud.

"Like what?" Klaus asked.

"Sweet" I answered.

"Maybe you shouldn't judge people before you get to know them love" he told me I let my hair fall back into place.

I smiled.

"Temperatures already going down" Klaus said as he returned to his place next to me on the bed.

An hour later I reached over for the tissue box on my nightstand and firs the first time that day it wasn't for my nose it was for my eyes.

"You alright love?" Klaus asked.

"He can't find his momma" I sobbed.

"Aww well deer usually know how to raise themselves" he said trying to comfort me.

"He's so small and those hunters just killed his own family"

"You'll never look at Stefan the same after this will you" Klaus joked.

I laughed and dried away my tears.

Klaus Mikaelson

I didn't have to watch the end of Bambi. There was no good reason for me to carry on watching it. I didn't care about the little deer, I didn't care.

Caroline had fallen asleep ten minutes ago and was now lying against my chest and drooling. It wasn't a favourite shirt so I didn't mind. I was just enjoying having her so close.

She kept surprising me. The way she had told her friends she could take care of herself and the way she had tried her very best to push me away. She was so strong and yet she cried at Bambi. Caroline was like anyone I had ever known, whenever I wasn't with her was like I was on fire knowing I couldn't touch her. Then when I was with her like I was now, my body and mind where so peaceful so still.

When Bambi finished I clicked off the television and looked down at Caroline. She head was onto top of my chest and her arm was over my stomach while her body was glued to my side. If I got up she would wake up and I didn't want that. She was sick and needed her rest.

I looked around the room and the candles had all burnt out. I guess there was only one thing I could do. I brought my arms down from the back of my head and gently wrapped them around Caroline as I made myself comfortable next to her and closed my eyes.