For the klaroline infinity week on tumblr, day 3: Post-Canon. And for Luiza

"Klaus," Caroline says, wind whipping at her face, her blonde hair in curls. She waits until Klaus turns his head in her direction - which is not long. He will never let her wait for long -

He quirks his eyebrows upwards, question filling his eyes.

Breathing deeply, she gathers her wits about her, suddenly self-conscious. It is completely ridiculous she knows, after all the things they have seen and done, to feel nervous about what will only be another experience in a long line of others.

- Except it isn't. Not really.

Or at least not for the girl who was once seven and innocent.

Or the one who was twenty and dreaming.

Or the one who is three hundred and wants forever -

"Will you marry me?" she asks, then resists the urge to cringe at how the words sounded coming out, haste and not at all how she'd envisioned it in her mind.

His face shows many emotions, varying in their degrees, until at last his features settle into the combination of surprised and wonder.

He coughs, the rare minute of boyish innocence gone.

"What?"

"Well," she begins. "I want to marry you. And I'm asking if you'd like that too."

Klaus's gaze turns scrutinizing, searching her face over. He does so for slowly dragged moments before he nods to himself, seemingly satisfied with the results his search gathered.

"Yes, I'd like to."

She smiles, a feeling of lightness surging through her. Her hands reach into the pocket of her coat, thumbing the box, and take it out. Twin wedding bands are placed inside, one bright silver and the other a gleaming gold. Caroline wiggles her fingers and Klaus puts his left hand in hers where she places the silver band on his ring finger.

The same is done with hers. It's a seamless process and yet her undead heart flutters with excitement. Klaus's touch floats over her golden ring, savoring.

"Truth be told, I thought there would be a fancier event involved," he speaks up, tone teasing.

A small huff escapes her lips. "I was going to do something big but then I realized that meant having to invite Rebekah and be within her presence and that was an abhorrent thought."

He laughs, probably remembering what them being in each other's vicinity the last time entailed. Not so few amounts of threats as Rebekah snarled in her face while Klaus miraculously kept them apart from ripping each other to shreds.

"Plus," she continues on, undeterred. "I like it like this, simple."

"What if you want to not be married to me one day?" Klaus whispers after several periods of silence, looking at the view stretched before them, a hint of uncertainty in his voice.

She looks ahead at the spectacular view, her mind trying to picture such a thing, one where she and Klaus can no longer fit into the terrible, awful, magnificent way they do, and the picture that comes to her mind appears faded, like the possibility is becoming more and more far-fetched.

And she doesn't know whether that thought is frightening or reassuring. Not in the slightest.

Eventually she manages to come out with an answer. "Then we'll take off the rings," she simply says, her eyes swiping over his silver band.

"I knew it," he mutters, a humorous lilt to his tone. Her eyebrows draw together in confusion at his statement. "You don't want to have a ceremony so you could divorce me at any time. Honestly, love, I deserve better than that."

Her body threatens to shake with the violent giggles bubbling in her throat. Though for the sake of the conversation, she attempts a straight face. "If I wanted to, I'd do it anyways, ring or no ring and you know it."

His face morphs into the compliant expression not unlike the one he had put on when she very firmly made her stance clear in the Miss Mystic Falls pageant, and resignedly nods.

Their eyes connect and a collective laugh comes out from both of their lips. The sound echoing around them. And for the lack of a better, througher description, it is a beautiful moment.

"Thank you, Caroline." Klaus mouths against her hair when she steps into his arms, content and happy.

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