A/N: Hi all, sorry! Another one, but this is a two-shot! I am in the process of also updating The Seven Seas, for those interested. And also, I'm on Tumblr now under .com or user klaroline4eva. I have no idea how this site works really other than people post stuff and people like it etc. But I'm trying to put my fanfictions on there or promote them or what ever. So if anyone has advice, please send it my way. Thanks a bunch and enjoy this one :)

PS: This is sort of based on the pics that were released recently when Caroline is organising the Miss Mystic Falls pageant. To me, if they ever were together in TVD, I'd imagine their relationship to be rocky. I can imagine them being so in love but their personalities and views would cause them to clash. I can also imagine that they would be together for a few years, before breaking up and Klaus trying to find her again then they would make up and start the cycle again. But when they were together, I think he would do anything for her to make her happy. This is what I think their relationship would be like.

Also, some references in this one are based on the song "She Will Be Loved" by Maroon 5.

The Tragedy That Is Us
Part I: Beauty Queen

When they had first met, he was a killer, a murderer and a cold hearted villian. The Big Bad, as many referred to the super villan as in stories. He had captured both herself and Tyler for the sacrifice, however, it hadn't been him personally of course whom did the 'kidnapping', but she she had seen him once or twice that night. She didn't speak to him, nor did she care.

The second time they had met, he had turned her boyfriend into a hybrid to become his slave. It was the beauty of a sire bond. He had noticed her then, but he had much more important things to care about than a beautiful girl. This time she had noticed him for the first time. When she had glanced up at him hovering over the dying Tyler, in the back of her mind she was slightly surprised at his appearance.

He looked nothing like an evil Original vampire that had come to ruin peoples lives at first glance, but as soon as he opened his mouth she could see it. At that moment, she had dispised him, hated him even.

Caroline Forbes had always been a shallow, self-centred sort of girl. That was why she had always been overlooked when she was younger, and sometimes even now. She actually had to thank her vampirism for making her see there are more things in life to worry about, than being picked first or caring about what people thought. Or being jealous of Elena Gilbert and for some reason after she was turned, that feeling just fell away, like sand.

But it was when he had first called her beautiful that all those feelings from when she was human came back to her. She never shared her deep thoughts with anybody about the subject, but for the first time in her life, someone was paying attention to her in a way that Tyler never did. Of course she would never say that to anyone, ever, but it made her feel good just to be wanted. And by the most powerful vampire on earth, no doubt. It was truly tragic.

OOO-OOO

He had seen her standing at the doorway after he had invited her to his mother's ball and he couldn't help but think she looked like a beauty queen; an absolutely breathtaking creature. He couldn't believe someone as beautiful as Caroline could have been born into this world without consequence. She had to be a goddess.

When she had asked about the bracelet when he showed her his paintings, he hadn't lied. It did belong to a princess, almost as beautiful as Caroline. Because now that he had found her, he truly believed that no one else could ever be more stunning...ravishing...georgous. No words could really describe just how much of a beauty she was.

She had danced with him once, after Elijah had made a speech and asked that everyone follow them to the ballroom. After that the evening played on. He had spoken to a lot of people, for so many were in attendance, but during several conversations he had noticed her across the room at various times. People would speak to her for a short time and every time she held a broken smile, like it wasn't real.

She had some trouble with herself and it hadn't been the first time he'd noticed her half smiles and fake camaraderie. He decided he didn't like it when she did that, like she was broken like him. Like she wasn't loved. And that couldn't be true because she had friends, she had family.

OOO-OOO

She had betrayed him, but was there anything to really betray? She wasn't his, he wished she was, but she wasn't.

He growled as he smeared the black paint onto the canvas in front of him. Clearly this piece was the rage within his heart; the betrayal. He had already burnt all the sketches he had done of Caroline, but this painting would be kept. To remind him why the Michaelson's do not care and they do not love.

When Rebekah had come up behind him and told him to go to the dance, he told her he didn't care if she was going or if Caroline was going. She meant nothing to him.

He only went because his sister had asked, that was all.

But she had looked so beautiful and then he had seen his annoying hybrid who did not have permission to leave and was now back, but he let that slide for Caroline's sake.

She had always had a sharp tongue on her and he liked that. Perhaps it wasn't sharp, more truthful. Most people throughout his life had felt the need to lie and tell him things he wanted to hear for fear of death, rather than what they thought. Caroline had always been brave like that.

They had shared a moment, but it was soon followed with a drama. There was always an issue in the town of Mystic Falls, an issue that usually put a spanner in the middle of his plans.

OOO-OOO

He had saved her life. He didn't know what compelled him to go to such lengths for her, but he suspected it was because it would be such a shame for someone as beautiful as her to die. Such a shame.

"Thank you," she had spoken softly, and from the expression on her face, she had been truly grateful.

Caroline had gone home as he had asked her to but the whole time she sat on her bed as the tears fell down her cheeks silently just thinking about how truly thankful she had been to see Klaus' face that day in the locker corridor.

She thought about how infatuated he seemed to be with her and wondered why. She had never been the one to be noticed, not that she cared now that she was with Tyler, but the thought did linger in her mind. The way Klaus spoke to her, like he had never seen someone like her before. It was unsettling. He treated her with respect and kindness, it even showed in the tone of voice he used when he spoke her name.

OOO-OOO

Klaus had now saved her twice and then she had made out with him. Well it was Tyler's body, but it was Klaus inside him. She had shown her disgust, but it wasn't because he was unattractive, it was because he was evil.

Caroline really couldn't believe the gall of that man! Like he was the 'innocent victim'! Hah! She knew better. And then the horrible feeling set in about the fact that perhaps Tyler would never return.

The body swap had caused her friend Bonnie to scream after the bodies had switched, she wanted to comfort her, but Jeremy was there. Bonnie needed him right now.

When she went up to Tyler and found that he knew nothing of the past day, so she didn't mention she had made out with Klaus in the woods. She was relieved he was back and well, but there was a nagging feeling in the back of her mind and she feared that a rift was beginning between them. Nothing out of the ordinary had happened for her sub-conscious to feel that there was and she constantly thought of Klaus and how repulsive she thought he was. It was a lie of course, but he really did cause her to get mad everytime she saw him.

OOO-OOO

She couldn't believe within the ten seconds he gave her to explain how to stop Elena's hallucinations, it had gone from "You're beautiful Caroline, but if you don't stop talking I will kill you" to "Go on a date with me and you can have one of my hybrids".

It was unbelievable. She was still thinking about it when she entered the Lockwood mansion to find Tyler drinking away his sorrows.

Caroline flinched. She had actually flinched when he had thrown the bottle at the wall behind her. A little in fear, she had to admit.

But couldn't Tyler see? She was doing it for them! To keep up the ruse that Tyler had slept with Hayley and they were broken up. It had to be this way. She didn't need to tell him that she was secretly wanting this.

She could understand Tyler's anger. Klaus had allowed one of his friend's to die in sacrifice for another friend, but he had only allowed it because Elena was more important than one of his hybrids, which were a dying breed it seemed. And Klaus was now taking his girlfriend on a date. Tyler had never hated the Original Hybrid so much, than right in that moment.

OOO-OOO

He had come to see her when she in the middle of organising the Miss Mystic Falls pageant. He had reminded her that she owed him a date and that the pageant was the perfect time.

She had wanted to go for a movie or something. A place where she wouldn't be tempted to give in to his charms, but now he would be seeing her at the pageant so she would have to talk to him, dance with him...with people watching. He would tell her things that will make her question whey she hated him, she knew he would, and that's what scared her.

But the thing was, she didn't truly believe she actually hated him and that was the most horrible feeling.

She'd been bitchy to him all night, she knew that. She hadn't been called a bitch for nothing in high school. She had been standing outside, away from everyone who were probably having a good time and he cornered her.

He approached her, demanding what her problem was.

"What do you want Klaus?" she said softly, her back still facing him.

Caroline had been doing that thing again, the broken smiles the fake comraderie. But she had been overly bitter toward him today and he was sick of it.

"You look beautiful today," he said quietly, noticing her bareback dress. It accentuated all her curves, but it wasn't the dress that made her beautiful.

Caroline scoffed as she turned around. "You've already used that line. You should be happy, I'm your date-"

"But you're not acting like it, are you?" he said bitterly as he moved forward. "Why won't you give me a bloody chance?"

Caroline's lips tightened into a thin line, trying to hold back her anger in a public place. "I think you know. I've told you a million times, why won't you give up?"

"Because. I have eternity. You keep shooting me down, sweetheart, but I'll keep trying. I don't mind spending eternity trying to win you over; eventually, you'll give in to your desires and you'll come find me," smirked Klaus with a confident smile.

She knew that she was giving in. It only been very slightly, but she had already agreed to go on this date, but why? Surely they could have offered something else in return for killing one of his hybrids. She knew the reason they had done so was because they didn't want to turn an innocent person into a vampire, only to kill them again. But his hybrids were innocent too. They didn't choose this life, Klaus had made them into what they were.

So why had she said yes to his offer? Because that was her use. Klaus was interested in her so therefore she was used as his weakness. But she could have refused. Again, it all went back on her.

Maybe that was why she had been so mean to him today because she was trying to push him away for fear of giving in too much. She tried to show that she didn't care for him, but she was failing.

She looked into his eyes, not knowing how to get out of this situation. So she did the thing she did best.

"I will never find you Klaus. There is nothing between us and can never be. How can you not understand that?" she exclaimed, before he was in front of her, gripping her tightly on the upper arm.

They were so close that if she moved forward but an inch she would be kissing him. They stared intently at each other. Klaus had an almost lustful look in his eyes and Caroline held fear. Fear that if he moved foward and closed the gap between them that she would give in. She would let him. Oh God, she would let him if he did.

But he didn't. He was hurt by her words; her rejection. And suddenly, before Caroline could say anything, he was gone.

There was a feeling of regret that he had left behind in his wake, but it wasn't he whom felt that, it was her.

Klaus wanted to kill her, he really did. He held a hand around her neck, squeezing it.

"You betrayed me!" he screamed angrily.

Caroline tried to say something but she couldn't. It was true, she had betrayed him. But she had done it for her friends; for Tyler. What else could she have done? If she had the choice and there was another way without hurting Klaus she would have because no one deserved to have their feelings for someone else be used against them. Not even him.

Silent tears fell down her cheeks as she looked at him with fear, her emerald orbs pleading with him to understand. But he couldn't. He never would. He had been betrayed and lied to too many times for him to listen to people's excuses. It was why he killed and murdered and threatened people in the first place, because he could trust no one else but himself.

She felt the life leave her slowly and she was sure that he was crushing her wind pipe when suddenly he put her down and his strong hand released her neck.

"Go," he said quietly as he looked away from her and stepped back.

Caroline just stared at him, unsure of what to say.

Elena, Damon and Stefan were staring at the display, as well as Tyler and Hayley. After all, they had been in his house, freeing his hybrids as he had strode in with Caroline running after him.

Damon narrowed his eyes at Caroline because he could see something in them, as did all of them. It was regret.

"Klaus, I-"

"Go!" he screamed as he snapped his gaze back to her angrily.

Caroline was gone in a second, using her vampire speed to run, leaving behind confused friends and a hurt Klaus. But he soon masked it with anger as he began to address the others.

OOO-OOO

Tyler had asked her about what he had seen at Klaus' house, but she smiled as she always did and said it was nothing. Because it was nothing. But inside of her was turmoil.

She knew what she felt but it was taking all her willpower to suppress it. To deny it. Tyler began to talk about their success and said it was a shame that Klaus now knew. He questioned her how Klaus found out.

She said it had slipped out. They were on another 'date' sort of, well, she was at the Grill and Klaus had been there. But Tyler had been the one to text Caroline that he was there.

They had talked a bit when Klaus had questioned her being there, knowing that there had to be some sort of plan. He demanded to know what it was, so they argued. And finally he had caught her saying something about his hybrids and he put two and two together.

Klaus had disappeared and she had ran after him.

After Caroline had finished her explanation she looked up to see Tyler's expression change from curiousity to fury.

"What?!" he screamed. "How could you say that Caroline?! You've ruined everything!"

Caroline's eyes widened but then she narrowed them angrily. "Excuse me!? I was doing you and Hayley a favour, if you recall."

"What? A favour? So its a favour to help innocent people now Caroline? I think you've been spending a bit too much time with Klaus, you're starting to even sound like him," spat Tyler as he walked out of her room and toward the front door.

"No. I was doing you a favour because its something you want. I'm all for helping people Tyler, you know that. But I'm Elena's friend first. I don't even know those people! And even though I despise Klaus it wasn't right of us to use his feelings of me against him like that, no one deserves that," exclaimed Caroline, following Tyler as he wrenched open the door and ran down the path.

He turned around to face her and shook his head.

"He deserves everything he gets Caroline! I can't believe you even said that!" he yelled angrily. He looked at her and his eyes widened. "He pulled you in, didn't he?"

Caroline shook her head furiously. "No! Of course not, I'm just saying-"

"Saying what, Care? This is what I was jealous about before and you kept saying it was stupid, well, look at you now. You're defending him!" he screamed, unable to hold back his anger any longer.

"No, its not like that Tyler. I'm just saying that there could have been another way. To toy with people's feelings like that, its no better than what he would do," explained Caroline, refusing to believe she was defending him.

Tyler narrowed his eyes at her and shook his head.

They stood on the street, metres apart, just glaring at each other. They could both see it. There was an invisible line in between them, causing them to be apart, just like they were standing.

"I love you Tyler, please..." said Caroline softly as tears fell down her face. God she hated that she cried all the time, she hated it.

Tyler shook his head. "I love you too, but can't you see this is ruining us. He is ruining us."

"It was Hayley's idea. To use me. Do you not see how wrong that is? What separates us from Klaus when we're willing to do what he does?" asked Caroline, the guilt eating her up inside. "She threatened to bite Elena, did you know that? She was trying to prove a point that it had to go her way!"

But Caroline could see it wasn't Hayley's fault. She was a good person but Hayley had seen too many of her pack members be brought into the clutches of Klaus to care about someone she didn't know like Elena. And Hayley could see she was precious to all of them, so she had no option left to her but to go there. To the point where she didn't care if her actions would cause her to become like Klaus himself, but she had to achieve her goal.

Tyler looked at Caroline as if she were a monster. "I can't believe you're bringing Hayley into this, she was right anyway! It had to be like that...but it doesn't matter now, its over. We've lost our opportunity because you don't hate him anymore."

Caroline's eyes widened. No, it wasn't true! It wasn't.

"Yeah, I know Caroline. You don't hate him. I can see it in your eyes."

Caroline watched as Tyler walked away from her and the rift between them got bigger and bigger with each step he took.

I'm sorry, but its true, she thought as she turned around and walked back into her house.

She had told Elena what happened and surprisingly, Elena was sympathetic. They had a girls night and she told Elena that she was sorry that they didn't succeed in getting the hybrids away from Klaus. Elena could see her dilemma and said it was a bad situation and that Caroline shouldn't have been put in that position in the first place.

But Caroline didn't tell Elena that she didn't hate Klaus anymore. No, that would be a secret she would have to keep with her for all eternity. She had however said that not even Klaus deserved his feelings to be played with because that was just stooping to his level.

Elena had agreed.

OOO-OOO

It had been revealed that Professor Shane was Silas. And he was evil. He wanted to wreak havoc on the world and a good percentage of it were vampires so therefore he was trying to destroy them. And since Silas was a witch, a very powerful one at that, he favored humans over dead creatures like them.

And there was no cure, it was all a ruse so that he would be seeked out by vampires. The Originals, specifically.

Caroline sat on the couch at the boarding house. Their group was trying to think up a plan on how to defeat him. The Original's were there too since it affected them as well.

She had glanced once or twice at Klaus but he hadn't given her the light of day since she had betrayed him. It bothered her.

He was currently berating Damon for being a hotheaded idiot and that if they left it up to him, they would all be dead. Now everyone was arguing.

She had just realised something. Silas was the guy that was buried alive by his lover whom was scorned because he wanted another woman to spend eternity with.

Bonnie had mentioned earlier that she came upon a spell in Shane's witch grimoire which she had stolen. It was about resurrecting someone from the dead. She only remembered it because Bonnie was going on about how it would have consequences and then it went on to her telling Caroline about what she had seen when she went to the other side to save Elena. Caroline hadn't been told that yet because of everything that had been going on, so she felt sorry for the Bennett witch.

"Excuse me," she said, interrupting the squabbling, causing Klaus, Elijah and Stefan to turn to her with annoyed looks on their faces.

After all, they had been in a heated arguement about the white oak stake that Damon was stubbornly not handing over.

"What is it Caroline?" asked Stefan, holding back the urge to roll his eyes.

"What about that spell that Bonnie came across in Shane's grimiore?" she said innocently.

Bonnie frowned and began to cut in. "The resurrection one? Why is that important?"

"Well, I know I'm just the blonde and all and you can berate me later if it turns out to be nothing, but, wouldn't that take a lot of sacrifice to achieve?" asked Caroline, standing up from the couch with a hand on her hip.

Bonnie grabbed the grimoire and flipped to the page she had seen earlier. She read the lines and everyone remained silent as she did so.

Stefan went and sat down next to Damon, looking over his shoulder toward Bonnie. Elijah and Klaus exchanged looks.

"I fail to see the importance," said Klaus as he glared at Caroline for her interferance.

"Oh...my god," breathed Bonnie as her eyes widened.

Caroline looked at her from across the room. Did she actually get something right? She was just stabbing in the dark, trying to get away from all the arguing which was wasting their time. She expected everyone to go 'thanks, but stick to what you're good at'.

Bonnie stood up with the book in her arms, as she described to them what the spell entailed.

"It says here basically that in order for this spell to work, lives must be taken. But not just any life, inpure life. Enough to make up for the loss of an innocent," said Bonnie as she looked around at the others.

"God, vampires," said Caroline quietly. "But how many? A whole race?"

Bonnie shrugged. "Only Silas would know, he's the one that created this spell. But if I had to guess, quite a few. A life is important, especially to witches."

Caroline looked to Bonnie. "Didn't you say Silas had a woman that he wanted to spend eternity with?"

"He wants to bring her back," said Elena to their left. "But why kill the whole race?"

"Well the good old Shane did say Silas wanted to get revenge and cause havoc on the world, what better way than to kill an entire race for the fun of it and so he can resurrect his woman," piped up Damon.

"You're not funny Damon," said Caroline with a roll of her eyes.

"Lighten up blondie, you gave us a clue. Which is so unlikely, if I'd heard that you would actually say something useful, I would have shot myself from being stupid," laughed Damon which caused Elena to hit him hard on the shoulder.

"Well then, looks like its time for you to do some research," said Klaus, unamused and sick of being in their presence. He looked to Elijah whom nodded and they began to walk out.

"Um, excuse me but you know this concerns you too, right?" said Stefan as he strode toward the exiting Originals. He was not pleased at Klaus leaving them to do all the 'leg work'.

"We're aware," said Elijah. "But we have leads we can follow also. We'll keep in touch."

Caroline watched them walk out and she sighed. Shit was going to go down soon, who would survive? Them? Or Silas?

OOO-OOO

Today was the day. It was D-day as many people called these sorts of situations.

Elena was off doing something special with Damon, Stefan was having a drink with Jeremy and Matt and she was standing in front of Klaus' house with a letter.

Everyone was off doing stuff they wanted to do, knowing that perhaps today would be their last day. So she had decided, screw it, she'd write Klaus a letter. She had wanted to talk to him for so long, explaining that she never meant to hurt him this way.

She was about to slip it under the door when it opened to reveal Elijah. He had been expecting one of them to turn up at their door to go over the plan, but instead it was Caroline holding a letter.

Talk about awkward.

"Uh, hi," she said weirdly as she put on a fake smile. "Um...I'll just be going now."

Caroline turned to walk away.

"Wait. What is that in your hand?" he asked quizzically.

"What, this? Oh! Its nothing important. I don't even know why I'm here, god! I'm having a ditzy day today," she laughed awkwardly.

"Klaus isn't here..." began Elijah, as he took in the woman in front of him. She was acting nervous and silly. What was wrong with the girl?

"Oh, that's...good. I mean, he wouldn't have spoken to me anyway," she said.

Elijah glared at her. "And you know why, I suspect," he said with a clipped tone.

Caroline's fake smile faded. "Y-you don't know anything about it. Look, I'm not here to argue with an Original. I'm going," she said, turning on her heel.

As she walked down the steps, she remembered why she was there. This could be her last day, she had to let him see what she had written. Caroline turned and walked back up to notice that Elijah hadn't left or closed the door yet. He just kept staring at her.

"Can you just give this to him please?"

Elijah raised an eyebrow. "Is it another betrayal? I don't think he can handle many more of those," he said, unusually harsh.

Caroline turned away, as if she didn't know what she did was stupid and wrong. It wasn't making her feel any less guilty.

"Look, please just do this. We could be dead tomorrow and I wanted to just...be truthful," she said, her eyes pleading him to do as she asked.

"He doesn't care for you anymore. I only say this to save you the trouble, Niklaus has never been one to care about anyone, surely you must know this by now. He probably didn't care about you in the first place, but you were challenging from what I've been told," said Elijah as he took the envelope she was holding out to him.

Caroline couldn't help but feel slightly hurt from his words. Perhaps she had just been entertainment for him and perhaps he never truly cared about her. But she had. She looked back at him with tears threatening to fall.

"I know. Just give him the letter. Everyone is out doing what they want to do because they think it may be the end of the line. And I decided that I should let him know how I feel, even if he hates me now. At least I've done what I wanted to do on my last day. You should do the same," said Caroline, her eyes filled with emotion.

She turned around and walked down the stairs to her car.

Elijah walked back into the house, looking at the envelope with a confused look upon his face.

"Who was it?" said a voice from the loungeroom.

Elijah walked into the room and saw Klaus laying on the couch, drawing a landscape. He had a sketch book against the back of his forearm which was perched up with his elbow on his chest.

"This is for you," said Elijah. "I told her you no longer cared for her and that you probably never did, but she gave me this anyway."

Klaus perked up a bit, taking the envelope from his brother's hand and looked at the font written on the front of it.

"Caroline..." he breathed in disbelief.

"She said she wanted to give you this because it may be our last day," said Elijah before leaving the room.

Klaus was still staring at it. He discarded his sketch book, placing it on the ground and opened the envelope. He couldn't believe it was from Caroline.

As his eyes scanned the page, his frown deepened. As he came upon the last line, he dropped the piece of paper to the ground.

OOO-OOO

It all happened so fast. Silas was chanting, the vampires fell to the ground holding their heads in pain. Suddenly the pain stopped to see that Bonnie was using a counterspell to intersect Silas' spell.

Caroline got up off the ground to do what Damon had told her to do. The others were getting up and they charged at the Five whom were protecting Silas.

They were at a graveyard which held his 'beloved' and he had already dug it up by the time they arrived. But he had been expecting them. The Five were there waiting for them, and Elena and herself had already got shot with wooden bullets. Mainly just the shoulder and legs, but it still hurt.

She had checked first that Elena was okay, and pulled out the wood and then she raced around the fighting and past Silas in a blur. When he turned his eyes widened in rage.

His beloved was gone. He could not resurrect her if her body was not there.

"Get her!" he screamed. "The blonde one took her!"

Klaus and Elijah looked up. He hadn't been privy to that part of the plan.

Caroline raced through the woods with the body over one shoulder. It stunk and it felt really gross, not to mention she would have to burn this jacket and throw it away afterwards - if there was an afterwards.

"Put the body down, now!" yelled a voice from behind her.

Caroline stopped and slowly turned around to see one of the hunters holding a crossbow, aimed at her.

"If you pull the trigger, I'll just put the body in front of me," said Caroline, trying to sound confident. She even added a smirk to show she didn't care, hoping that he would let her go.

His resolve wavered as he lowered the crossbow slightly, but then she felt a seering pain in her head. She screamed, letting go of the body as it slammed to the ground with a thud, as she was brought to her knees. Blood began to seep out of her ears and she fell to the ground clutching her head.

She screamed and screamed, hoping that the pain would end. It was a blood curdling scream that everyone in the clearing, near the graves, could hear. It made a few of the vampires whom were busy fighting, falter for a moment.

"A pity really. You really are beautiful, its too bad you're an undead being," said a voice.

The pain was too great for her to even register what he was saying. She thought she was going to die. Suddenly the pain stopped, it took her a moment to recover and she could feel her brain healing because the severe headache she had was decreasing by the second.

She looked up to see that Stefan had pretty much rugby tackled Silas and Elena had grabbed the crossbow from the hunter and shot him in the arm with it. Elena ran over and grabbed Caroline by the face.

"God Care, are you okay? I knew we shouldn't have made you do that...I told Damon-"

"Its fine Elena," smiled Caroline. "God, I thought I was gonna die, but I'm fine now, thanks to-"

"Shit!" exclaimed Stefan. "He's got the body!"

Elena and Caroline turned to see that Silas was gone and so was the body. They all disappeared, using their vampire speed to run back to the graveyard.

Elena and Stefan had straight away run to Damon whom was about to get staked by one of the hunters, Jeremy and Matt were running toward Silas, Elijah was taking on another hunter and Klaus...he was about to die. One of the hunters were holding him down and another was standing above him about to stake him with the white oak stake. Elijah was frantically trying to get away from the one he was fighting, but it was no use. These hunters weren't like typical humans, they didn't have vampire strength, but they were skilled.

Caroline ran and tacked the hunter about to stake Klaus in the chest. She couldn't let him die. Tyler would die, he would die. A lot of vampires would die, she suspected.

They flew to the ground. She managed to hold his arm from staking her, and elbowed him in the face. She quickly got up and ran toward him as he rolled backwards onto his feet.

"You shouldn't have done that, girl," he yelled, charging at her. She grabbed his wrist again which held the stake, against his struggled as he tried to get the upper hand, but she was stronger.

She pulled his arm away and grabbed him by the throat. She squeezed and felt the tendons in his neck begin to crush. Her eyes were on fire with rage and she didn't know why. Maybe it was because a lot of people would have died if he had succeeded.

"No, you shouldn't-"

The hunter brought his other hand up and punched her in the face, causing her to let go of his throat. She turned around to be kicked in the chest, causing her to fly backwards. She managed to backroll and get to her feet.

They circled each other. He held the white oak stake in his hand, trying to work out how to attack her.

"You know, this thing will still kill you, even though its made to kill an Original," he taunted. "And I don't miss."

Caroline was calm on the outside, but on the inside, she was panicking. She wasn't a fighter, she was a planner. Why did she do what she had just done? Tackled him like that?

"Try it, I dare you. You won't achieve much since I'm not an Original. My death won't mean anything to anyone, I don't have a line of people I've turned that will die," she said, trying to sound like she wasn't afraid to die. But she was.

"But it will mean something to them," he said, pointing his thumb behind him where people were fighting.

She looked over his shoulder to see that Damon had been saved. That hunter had been incapacitated. Elijah was just walking over to them now as he had incapacitated his hunter.

"Maybe, but maybe not. You don't know me, but, I know something you don't know. Its over," she said as she disappeared and appeared in front of him, breaking his wrist which held the white oak stake, causing it to fall to the ground. Her eyes locked with the two vampires behind him.

Suddenly he felt immense pain on the side of his neck where his jugular was and felt his body begin to shut down. He was being drained.

She let go of the man's wrist, noticing a weak pulse thankfully and picked up the stake. She looked down at Elijah whom removed his fang's from the man's neck and stood up, wiping his mouth with a hankerchief from his suit jacket pocket.

Caroline turned away with a nod and looked to Klaus whom stood next to him. His icy blue orbs went from her to the stake she was holding. She supposed he didn't trust her with it.

But the mistrust went out the window when she passed it to him without saying anything, before walking past him toward where Stefan, Elena, Damon, Jeremy and Matt were standing in front of Silas.

"Give up! We've immobilized your hunters," she heard Damon say.

She stopped next to Stefan and looked at Silas.

"You think you've won?"

He had another plan up his sleeve, a spell. A spell to reverse immortality.

Klaus and Elijah were suddenly there and their eyes widened at his revelation.

Bonnie also stood behind them now, as she had moved from out of the tree line now that the fighting was over. She looked up at Shane, who was Silas, still not able to believe that it had been Silas all along.

"What good will that do? What if we allow you to perform your spell to resurrect that girl and you just don't perform the spell to kill the vampire race?" comprimised Bonnie as she stepped from behind Elena and stood in front of them all, pleading with him to reconsider.

Silas laughed and looked to her as if she were a jester. "You truly are a silly little girl, Bonnie. Do you really think that I'll just let you all live? I am Silas, the most powerful witch in all creation! I have waited thousands of years for this moment and you think I'll just give that up because you ask me to?"

Bonnie sighed, her eyes focusing on the ground beneath her.

"Then I'm sorry. The witches on the other side agree, you have to go. I'll protect my friends and my family first. I'll do anything to protect them," Bonnie said sadly as she began chanting.

Silas stared at her in shock.

The power Bonnie was generating was unbelievable, he couldn't contend with it. But she had all the witches help now; how she got them to agree, would be a mystery to him.

And as he felt his power being taken away, he glared at her with hatred and disbelief. That this girl, little Bonnie Bennett, was more powerful than him.

When it had ended, Silas looked up.

Damon glared at him and then walked up and pulled on Bonnie's shoulders, causing her to face him. "What the hell? I thought you said you were going to take care of him!" he exclaimed as he pointed to Silas who was getting to his feet in front of them.

Bonnie shrugged off his hand and narrowed her eyes at him angrily. "Yes Damon, I did take care of him," she spat. "He's powerless. His powers have been binded...forever."

OOO-OOO

They lived to fight another day. As they all left for their cars, Caroline noticed Klaus on the phone. She listened in using her enhanced hearing to realise he was speaking with Rebekah.

She noted that Klaus had told Rebekah not to be in this fight and Kol had wanted nothing to do with it at all. It was his humanity showing again. He didn't want something to happen to his sister, despite always treating her harshly and claiming he didn't care for family.

She sighed and turned around to be faced with Elijah. She gasped in surprise and held a hand to her chest.

"God! You scared the crap out of me," she said with a smile. "Can I...help you?"

"You saved Niklaus. Thank you," he said simply, a smile edging its way on his lips. "Its funny that you would do such a thing, knowing that he has caused you and your friends such pain."

Caroline rolled her eyes. "That would mean Tyler would die too and god knows who else," said Caroline matter-of-factly.

Elijah raised an eyebrow.

"I thought you hated him anyway," said Caroline curiously.

"I love my family. If I held grudges with my family, I would have alienated them centuries ago. When you're immortal and will live forever, you tend to get over such meaningless things and put into perspective what matters," said Elijah, passing on wisdom as he always did. "Good night, Caroline."

Caroline sighed as she thought about his words. She had forever...eternity. Could she deny her feelings for all eternity?

"Caroline," said a voice from behind her. "Good job today."

It was Elena. Caroline smiled. "Thanks. Have a good night, does Damon and Stefan need help with the hunters? Are they taking them to the locked room under their house?"

Elena shrugged. "Not sure, but nar I think they're okay. Thanks." Elena placed a hand on her shoulder and went to the car.

Caroline tried to find Bonnie but it seemed she had already left so she walked to her own car, pressing the button to unlock it.

"Caroline," said his voice from behind her.

"Not tonight, Klaus, please," she said with a groan. She turned around to see him staring intently at her. It looked like he were trying to assess her; observe her.

"I read it," he said simply, trying to see her reaction to his words.

Immediately she began to feel herself blush for some reason. She was embarrassed. After she had given the letter to Elijah she had wanted to go back straight away and get it back. She hadn't been thinking clearly today.

"I-I don't want to talk about it, lets just forget it, okay?" she said quickly, avoiding his intense gaze.

"You can't truly deny it now, can you, love?" he said softly as he walked toward her, before stopping closely in front of her.

He looked down at her. He noticed how afraid she looked, like he would hurt her.

"I can do what I like! Just-just stop this!" she exclaimed as she looked back at him with fear in her eyes.

"I noticed Tyler wasn't here tonight...had a falling out?" he smirked knowingly.

Caroline looked away as if she had been hurt physically. A few of her blonde curls fell in front of her face at her action and he pulled them away, tucking them behind her ear. The move caused her to look up at him in surprise.

"Don't," she warned as he pulled his hand away.

"Why? You explained it to me in your letter, love. You think about me, I think you said," said Klaus with a knowing smile.

"Just stop, please...it was a mistake to give that to you," she said finally, looking up at him with a glare.

Klaus growled and slammed his hands eitherside of her face onto the car behind her, blocking her in.

"You can deny it all you want. But I know," he said. "And now that I know, I won't give up."

Caroline shook her head. "No. You...this is your fault you know. All this crap that's happened is because of you! You can't just go around and expect me to fall for you because you want me and expect me to just give in and say yes. You've hurt my friends, you kill people! That's why its so hard, Klaus."

Klaus glared at her angrily.

"And I-I hate myself. Because I thought I was too smart to be seduced by you...and I am, but I...I guess that my heart isn't as strong as my head," she added softly, but turned her head to the side so that he couldn't see the tears welling up in her eyes.

Klaus backed up, his eyes wide at her revelation. And suddenly she was gone.

OOO-OOO

Ten years had passed. Caroline had began to travel after Silas had been defeated. She had left Mystic Falls behind her, telling her friends that she wanted to discover the world outside of their small town. It didn't help that after their 'talk' he pursued her even more than before.

People were starting to ask her why that was. Tyler had since moved on, which was fine, but Damon started asking questions. So did Stefan and even Bonnie. And she had been so close to giving in too. So to suppress her feelings even more, she knew what she had to do.

There had been a farewell party, tears had been shed but she was strong. She had to do this. She feared that if she stayed her friends would end up hating her. It was a small town, eventually they would find out the truth of what she had revealed to Klaus.

So far, she had seen almost all of the world. It was nice but lonely. She wasn't used to being lonely, she had always been a party goer, a people person...not a loner.

But she did it for her friends; her family. Because if they knew the truth, they would hate her and feel betrayed. It seemed that's all she was good at, to betray people.

The other plan for her being away from Mystic Falls was to forget about Klaus and her stupid feelings. So far, it had done the exact opposite.

When she was with Tyler, it was easier to avoid Klaus and her feelings because she truly had none for him at the time. After Elena turned, however, she wasn't sure what exactly had happened, but Klaus just seemed different. In reality, he hadn't changed at all. He was still the same evil bad guy except that the people he threatened weren't her friends because they had a silent aliance of some sort. It was because she had changed.

And when she broke up with Tyler, or more, he broke up with her the walls that she had built up slowly crumbled and eventually her heart began to see different things about Klaus that she never thought she would think about. But then again, she had started to see a different side to him before that, but made excuses as to why he was being different.

Caroline wouldn't give in though. She still treated him the same every time and she could be a bitch when she wanted to be, especially when he was being kind to her. She had to keep her feelings at bay, for her friends.

She could be happy with him, she knew that, but it was wrong.

She sat at her hotel, in the penthouse suite (thank god for compulsion), looking out over the city of New York. She had just come back from overseas, the last city being Venice.

Caroline contemplated the reason for her being away from Mystic Falls, and had come to the conclusion that she hadn't achieved everything she had planned for. In fact, since her first day away from Mystic Falls ten years ago, till now, her feelings had only gotten stronger. She missed him.

She missed the gifts, the way he called her beautiful, georgous, ravishing...he missed his smile. The one that she never saw when around other people, the evil one. No, the one he had with her seemed genuine.

What was wrong with her? It seemed it would take her a century to be truly over him, not that they had been together at all. But these feelings had to go away sometime, right?

Suddenly a knock on her door was heard. Caroline stepped away from the balcony and walked toward the door. She opened it without hesitation before opening it. Her eyes widened as she slammed the door shut.

"Fuck!" she whispered as she frantically looked around for an escape route.

God! Why am I even looking around? Of course the only escape is the balcony! she thought stupidly. She ran toward the balcony before the door smashed open and fell to the ground as a figure stepped over the debre and strode toward her.

Caroline's eyes widened from the balcony. She hadn't had a chance to even get on top of it yet when she saw him standing in the doorway to her 'exit'.

"Caroline, love, you're going a bit far, aren't you?" he said in an amused tone.

Caroline backed up against the wall of the ballustrade, facing Klaus and glanced down over the side subtly. It was a big fall. She had planned to just jump to the next floor and then go from there but it seemed he'd given her no choice.

"Don't even think about it, Caroline," he warned, the amusement now vacant from his tone. He leaned against the door frame with his arms crossed over his chest and stared at her, drinking in her form.

Caroline sighed, giving up her escape plans and looked over at him. "What do you want?"

"You know what, sweetheart," he said. "I'm over you trying to escape me."

"God! There's a reason I left, Klaus, if you didn't realise. I didn't send you a post card, that in itself should give you a hint," she said sarcastically, putting a hand on her hip in frustration.

"Funny. And I don't care. You can keep running away from me, but we both know eventually you'll give in," he said with a smirk as he walked toward her, causing her to panic.

"Don't! Don't you dare come any closer!" she exclaimed, holding her hands up to protect herself. Her eyes were blazen with fear at what he was going to do and as he closed in on her personal space, she knew.

His lips crashed onto hers and immediately she gave in. She wrapped her hands around his cheeks and then his neck as he lifted her up onto the top of the balustrade, their lips never parting. He pulled her body closer to his and she wrapped her legs around his hips tightly.

They found themselves in the loungeroom. He was sitting on the couch with his back against the cushions and she was on top, straddling him and he had his hands around her bottom, holding her firmly in place.

Suddenly he ripped off her blouse and his shirt was also lying vacantly on the ground in front of the couch. She pulled away from him and frowned.

"Excuse me?" she exclaimed, leaning back a bit, showing her annoyance.

"What?" he asked, truly unsure of what he'd done wrong, his blue orbs wrought with confusion.

"That was a good blouse you know...you can't just go ripping things off like that!" she said.

Klaus raised an eyebrow. "Well, I'll be sure to note that for next time," he smirked.

Five years passed. Caroline hadn't stepped foot in Mystic Falls yet, not for fifteen years. She walked up to her apartment and opened the door, closing it behind her. Her high heels made the walk down the hall very loud.

"I hope you're not a burglar, those shoes aren't very stealthy," said Klaus from another room.

Caroline rolled her eyes as she placed some groceries on the counter in the kitchen, before making her way to the spare room.

"Seriously? Do you like live here now?" she said in annoyance, crossing her arms over her chest once she stopped next to him.

He was sitting in a chair, painting. He looked up at her and smirked.

"Well, you leave your door unlocked, so I suppose I do," he said with a shrug, going back to what he was doing.

Caroline huffed.

"Don't be like that sweetheart, you know you want me to," he said knowingly to which she rolled her eyes.

She noticed the painting and smiled. "You'll get sick of creating art of me one day, Klaus," she said, shaking her head to walk back to the kitchen.

Klaus put down his paint brush and followed her. He watched her putting away various items of food and came up behind her, wrapping his arms around her belly and placing a chaste kiss on her neck. She smiled and leaned back, letting him do what he was doing; making her feel giddy.

"You can't keep doing this Klaus," she said softly, causing him to let go of her.

Caroline turned around to be shocked by his hurt expression as she pulled away from his embrace. He pursed his lips and narrowed his eyes at her.

"Doing what?" he glared.

"This! We can't be together, Klaus! And you know why," she exclaimed angrily, not knowing why he was upset for.

"You know that I can't...I don't love, Caroline," he said, turning away from her in annoyance.

Caroline sighed sadly. She had said it once, about two years ago. Since the night he found her five years ago, they had been with each other for a while at that point. First just sleeping together, then going on a few dates here and there and they eventually found themselves spending a lot of time together. He would go once in a while back to Mystic Falls, or to England where Rebekah was at the moment or to France where Kol lived.

But he always came back to her. He didn't know why he wanted to stay around her all the time, and she didn't know why she wanted him to.

It was after two years she had said that she loved him. She didn't even know why she had said it. Maybe she had forgotten all the horrible things he had done, maybe it was because she couldn't deny it any longer but she knew it was because he made her feel alive and wanted. Loved.

"I know. Then why do you keep coming back?" she asked quietly as he walked to the door.

Her emerald orbs followed his movements, wondering why she bothered with him.

"I-I don't know, but I don't trust you. I don't trust anyone. Never have; never will. It won't always be you, sweetheart," he said bitterly, upset that Caroline couldn't leave the thing they had going on just...be. And he regretted it as soon as the words left his mouth. His eyes lowered for a moment to the ground, knowing that he shouldn't have said it.

But he was Klaus, after all. The man who couldn't love. Surely Caroline knew that by now.

Caroline's eyes widened. "I-I see. Don't bother coming back Klaus. I won't be here," she uttered before closing the door behind him.

She let the tears fall, knowing it was for the best. He was evil. She kept forgetting that, but it was true. Sure, he hadn't done anything evil for the past fifteen years, but she wasn't with him all the time. Surely he had done something evil within that time, he just hadn't let her see what it was.

Evil, she thought. Then why did it hurt so much that he would never love her. He would never trust her and it would never just be her. He would find someone prettier or better and would forget about her.

So she would do the same.

She moved out that day.

OOO-OOO

She found herself in London, England a two years later. Funnily enough, she had bumped into Rebekah. It seemed as though Rebekah had been doing the same as her. Staying in expensive assed hotels and compelling the receptionists to allow her to stay in the penthouse suite.

As soon as she got there, she noticed someone else already there.

"You!" they both exclaimed in unison as they pointed at each other at the doorway.

"I was here first, I'll have you know!" exclaimed Rebekah as she strode in with her suit case wheeling behind her, her head raised high.

Caroline raised an eyebrow. "Seriously? You can clearly see I'm here!"

"Well I was here before it was even built!" Rebekah said childishly, glancing at her rival.

"Like that counts, old hag!" exclaimed Caroline as she narrowed her eyes.

Rebekah's eyes widened. "Baby vamp!"

Caroline took a deep breath. "I hope he's not telling you to spy on me," said Caroline accusingly, folding her arms over her chest indignantly.

Rebekah looked to her and shook her head. "And even if he was, I wouldn't comply," she said, rolling her eyes. "I need a drink."

"Ditto," said Caroline. "Lets go to the bar."

They got drunk and went back to the penthouse to go to sleep, having spent most of the night arguing and then laughing and then arguing again. The next morning, they decided to compromise and stay in the same hotel room. They made rules that made sure that their presence wouldn't hinder the other. That included when Rebekah brought unfortunate souls back with her to shag or to eat, she would do it quietly or make sure Caroline wasn't there.

There was no chance of Caroline doing either thing to Rebekah. No one really appealed to her since Klaus and she didn't drink from the vein.

Caroline was cleaning her room when a piece of paper fell to the ground from her duffel bag. She frowned and picked it up, realising it was a drawing Klaus had done of her. She felt horrible and realised she really did love him.

Caroline supposed it was her punishment for rejecting him for so long and betraying him. But he'd deserved it, hadn't he? Tears began to fall down her cheeks and she wondered how long she had been crying.

"Caroline?"

She turned to see Rebekah looked at her with a frown.

"Did...did Nik draw this?" she asked, grabbing it from Caroline's hands.

Rebekah sighed. "You shouldn't love him, Caroline. He does not love and he does not feel. I was going to have the talk with you about if you hurt him, I'd kill you or something like that, but it seems its him that has done the hurting," said Rebekah, her eyes holding only pity for the girl.

"That's why you don't bring anyone home, you can't," said Rebekah, shaking her head.

She would hug Caroline, but then it would show that she cared. Rebekah had spent so long dispising girls like Caroline and in actual fact, they had been rivals and enemies for a long time. It was hard to get out of a rut like that. Plus her friends tried to kill her, so did she sort of. Not directly, but she was their friend. Guilty by association as they always say.

But time always healed wounds like that.

"But its good though. This is a good thing. He'll forget about me and he'll move onto someone else. Eventually I'll forget what I feel, right?" she said, glancing at Rebekah whom shook her head solemnly. "And he might go and be evil again."

Rebekah laughed at her last comment. "Yes, well, its what he does best. Look, just forget about him."

OOO-OOO

Rebekah woke up suddenly, from constant knocking on the door.

"Caroline!" she said, but saw that she was soundly asleep beside her.

After all, it was like a honeymoon suite or something so there was only one king sized bed to share.

"Coming," said Rebekah in annoyance as the knocking continued without ceasing.

She opened the door, noticing her brother standing there.

"Uh, Nik. What a pleasant surprise," said Rebekah with a smile.

She glanced to her side discreetly to see that Caroline was standing at the bedroom door with a questioning look.

"Sorry, but could you hold on a second," said Rebekah to Klaus.

Rebekah closed the door slightly and motioned Caroline to go back into the bedroom, and mouthed 'Nik is here' to which Caroline's eyes widened and she scrambled back into the bedroom, shutting the door behind her.

Rebekah opened the door again with a smile.

"I hope there is a reason for your visit as I currently have company," said Rebekah haughtily as she made her way to the kitchen. "Tea?"

Klaus shook his head. "I heard...Caroline was staying with you," he said inquisitively, but Rebekah knew straight away that there was hope in his voice.

"She was, but she left months ago. With a new boyfriend I think," smirked Rebekah as she turned away to boil the kettle.

Klaus tensed at her last words. Impossible.

"Oh, I see. What's his name?" he asked, his voice wavering slightly in jealousy.

"Not sure. I'll be sure to tell her you were after her, don't think it will make a difference though," said Rebekah as she got out a cup and put a tea bag and some sugar in it.

Klaus moved to sit on the couch, placing his legs across the other cushions.

"She's avoiding me," he sighed, resting his head against his arms in a relaxed fashion.

"Happens when you can't love someone, Nik," she sang as she poured the boiled water into her cup, stirring it with a silver spoon.

She casually walked over and sat in an armchair next to the couch, placing her cup on a side table next to the chair. She looked over at her brother and rolled her eyes at his sad expression.

"You two are absolutely infuriating. I don't even like her and I feel sorry for that girl," Rebekah said shaking her head.

Klaus frowned, but didn't look at his sister, his eyes intently staring at the ceiling.

"What happened to you? You're different. No hybrids to moan about? No killing or threats to go and fulfill?" said Rebekah, mockingly, causing Klaus to sit up angrily.

"NO! That's exactly the problem, isn't it? And she won't bloody answer my texts or calls..."

"Because you're an idiot, probably. She told me what you said to her," Rebekah said, taking a sip of her tea casually.

Klaus growled at her in anger as he snapped his head toward his sister. "Just because we're in a time of peace, sister, don't think for a second I won't put a dagger in your heart," he said threateningly.

Rebekah scoffed. "That threat is so last century, Nik. If you want to win her over, I suggest you keep to this 'peace' you speak of," she said with a smirk. "Telling her you will move onto someone else will not win her back, by the way."

Klaus looked at her. The guilt was written on his face. "I tried to forget about her, its always been so easy to forget."

"She loves you," said Rebekah, looking intently at her brother. "Its sickening, but she loves you. She keeps saying this is for the best and this will never work out. She even says you're evil and that you've done all these horrible things, which is true, but its just something she says to justify you leaving I suppose."

Klaus frowned at her. "Have you seen her recently? I thought you said she left months ago, Bekah," said Klaus skeptically.

Rebekah tried to think of a response. "Okay, I think you should go now. Lots to do you know! Shopping, drinking, that sort of thing," said Rebekah as she got up from the armchair and pulled Klaus out of the couch.

He stopped and turned, pulling her hand off his elbow. "Where is she?" he snapped, his aura projecting a silent threat.

"Its best you go. She doesn't want to see you...ever," said Rebekah sadly as her blue orbs held pity in them. "I'm sorry, Nik."

Klaus looked over at the closed bedroom door. She was in there, he knew she was. But if she never wanted to see him again, what was he to do? Bugger it. He strode over to the bedroom door, despite Rebekah's yelling and burst through the door to see Caroline laying in the bed, her back facing him.

He walked over to see her looking up at him, her face covered in tears.

"Go away," she said quietly, her blonde curls covering half her face from her position.

"You have to forgive me, love. Please," he said, bending down to a squat in front of her. He looked into her hurt emerald orbs.

Caroline glared at him. "Forgive you? You're a jerk! I want to be loved, Klaus. But you'll never love me..."

Klaus sighed and brought a hand to her cheek, pushing some of her locks away from her beautiful face.

"You will be loved," he said softly, before bringing his lips down onto hers.

And she forgave him, again.

Another six years had passed. Caroline had found a lovely apartment in Miami and wished to stay there for a while, so Klaus stayed with her. He followed her where ever she went anyway.

The fight started out over her catching him feeding from a young woman at the back of an alley way near a grocery store. He was meant to bring some things home, but her mobile was flat since she needed something extra, so she came down to meet him.

When she spotted him she gasped at the sight, causing him to look up and throw the woman to the ground instantly. He ran after her.

"Caroline!" he yelled after her but she kept running.

Suddenly he appeared in front of her, causing her to abruptly stop. She was livid.

"Caroline," he said, his eyes pleading her to understand.

She looked up at him, shaking her head, her beautiful curls swaying with her movement. "I knew it was too good to be true...you were just going to kill her, weren't you?!" she exclaimed angrily.

Klaus sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose in frustration. "You can't expect me to change, Caroline. You knew who I was; who I am. Just because I didn't do it in front of you, doesn't mean I don't do it," he said, not feeling any sort of remorse for his actions, only that Caroline had seen it.

Caroline looked at him, realising that she had been a fool. Tears began to form in her eyes as she looked away for a moment.

They had been having this on and off relationship for nearly fifteen years since she had left Mystic Falls. And the whole time she had fallen deeply in love with him. Too deep. He promised she would be loved and she had felt it. But he knew her feelings about killing and draining people and yet, he chose to still do it despite her values.

He made her feel so happy. He always acted like he wanted to please her, wanted her to be happy but behind the scenes, he clearly really didn't care about her at all. What exactly was she to him? Something to make him feel less lonely since he didn't have his hybrids to command anymore?

"What is this, Klaus?" she asked him. They looked over at the sunset that spread across the Grand Canyon. She had explored the world, but had never really explored America properly.

"What, love?" he asked.

"What is it we have, you and I?" she asked as she turned toward him.

Klaus was confused by the question. He thought it was obvious. "Its just us. That's all."

"Could I ever just make you happy? Could you ever just give up your ambitions and just live?" she asked, afraid of the answer.

Klaus looked away from her with a frown, not sure of how to answer. "I have no ambitions left, sweetheart. You're all I have."

"Don't lie to me. I know that you go off back to Mystic Falls when you say you have some 'business' and I know Elijah isn't there anymore. I guess Damon and Stefan still care about me," she said with a small smile, remembering the two Salvator's. Caroline had yet to speak to her other friends.

Klaus' lips pursed in annoyance. "Then they should mind their own business."

"Perhaps, but you still lied. There's something else, isn't there?"

Klaus held an expression she couldn't recognise before it left as soon as it appeared. Then he shook his head and smiled at her. "Of course not, sweetheart. You're enough for me."

"You're right. I knew who you were from the beginning. That's why I rejected you all the time, because I knew. But the heart wants what the heart wants," said Caroline with a sigh.

Klaus smiled as he went to place his arms around her but she pulled away, jumping back a few steps. His expression changed to relieved to panicked.

"And I was right in leaving Mystic Falls in the first place. I sacrificed my feelings before, I can do it again. I have to because you'll never just be happy with me. I'll never be enough for you," she said quietly, as tears fell down her cheeks.

He let her go. Perhaps part of it were true what she had said, but he would always need her. His Caroline. He had already been down the road of trying to forget her and it always leaded to nowhere.

He had found her again a year later and she had reluctantly forgiven him. He promised to not kill anyone, but he would still drink from the vein. She was satisfied with that.

A few years later they fought again and she left again. But then he found her again. He always found her.

It was a vicious cycle. Caroline loved him with all her heart and he couldn't live without her. They stayed together for a few years but something always made her upset and she would leave. Then he would find her hiding in the places he knew she would be. And then the cycle would start again.

It was a habit with them. But Klaus always found a way to ruin what they had, causing her to leave. That, and he still plotted behind her back. Not against her, but he had people working for him, some of his left over hybrids and various other vampires who feared him and were compelled to do his bidding. They investigated rumours that there was a way to kill the Original's, just in case. They also investigated a way to replicate the Doppleganger line, despite knowing that the Petrova line had ended, Klaus believed that there would have to be a way to start it again. After all, there had to be a reason for it to begin in the first place.

He couldn't let it go. And Caroline knew that. Caroline had found out one day after reuniting with Elena, Stefan, Damon and Bonnie at a coffee shop in Montreal. They had mostly just caught up on all the years that Caroline had been absent, but eventually the conversation came back to Klaus. Of course, she got the usual warnings from them but it seemed that time really did heal a lot of things. They seemed cautious and disappointed, but Elena had said she couldn't stop her.

But Damon told her what he had found out about Klaus as a last resort, letting her think about it.

And so Caroline decided that this would be their last fight. Meeting with her friends made her realise just how one sided their sordid relationship was.

She had told Klaus she had met with the others. He hadn't been pleased but he couldn't stop her.

"Do you love me?" she asked, seriously as she walked in the door of their penthouse in an expensive hotel located in Venice.

Klaus frowned at her sudden question and poked his head around from his eisle. He placed his paint brush down into the holder on the front of the eisle and walked over to her.

"What's brought this on? What did they say, Caroline?" he asked sternly, clearly angered and promising himself he was going to pay the Salvator's a visit for incurring Caroline's misgivings about their relationship.

"Answer me, Klaus. Do you or do you not?" she demanded, a hand on her hip.

Klaus loved it when she was fired up, it made her look even sexier than normal, but he had to defuse this situation. He didn't want to chase her around the world again...not at least until a few more years. He was enjoying their peace. In fact, he never liked fighting with her. He wished that they would remain together, always, but she always managed to find out something he'd done and left him.

And then the question she asked, every time. He kept telling her he didn't love, but she never accepted it.

"You know I can't. I tell you that every time you ask me!" he said angrily. "Why can't you just let us be?"

"Do you have hybrids and vampires running around the world doing your bidding?" she asked, placing her hand bag on the floor for the moment since she figured they were going to be at it for a while.

Klaus growled. "Those meddling bloody Salvator's," he spat, looking to the ground in frustration.

"It's not their fault, Klaus. It's yours. Is it true?" she asked, looking into his eyes for an answer.

And she got it. He kept avoiding her glare and she could tell he didn't want to tell her because he knew it would make her leave him again.

"God! I'm such an idiot," Caroline moaned, shaking her head in disbelief.

Suddenly Klaus was in front of her, holding her cheeks in his hands, looking intently down into her eyes with emotion. He didn't want her to leave again.

"Please don't leave, love," he said quietly. "I don't want you to leave again."

"You do this to yourself, Klaus. You know my thoughts about it and you know that if you just lived your life with me you wouldn't need to be sending your hybrids out to see if there are ways to kill you. You wouldn't need to kill people or threaten or ruin peoples lives! You wouldn't need to keep things secret, afraid that I'll leave! Don't you see? I can," said Caroline as she pushed him away.

She turned around and picked up her hand bag. Caroline didn't bother to turn around to say what she needed to say. "This is the last time, Klaus. The very last. I'm leaving for good and this time, you won't be able to find me. I can't live my life with a person who will never love me back."

Klaus' eyes widened in fear. "I'll always find you-"

Caroline turned around sharply to glare at him, tears flowing freely down her face, smudging her eye make up. "Not this time. Unless you can find the will to leave it all behind and just...love me, this is the end for us. Forever. And as you know, that's a long time."

Caroline walked to the door and opened it. Suddenly it slammed shut for her to turn and see Klaus standing next to her holding it shut. He angrily looked at her. She could see his eyes were glossier than normal, was he shedding tears about this?

"I won't let you leave me, Caroline. I let you leave numerous times before because I knew I could find you. But I won't let you leave, not this time. I can't," he said, leaning down and placing a kiss on her lips. He grabbed the back of her head with his hand and pulled her close with the other on her back.

Caroline closed her eyes and let him before pushing him back. "Stop. Let me go! If you care about me at all, you will let me leave. It's not fair and if you make me stay, I'll only resent you," she said evenly.

Klaus turned away from her and after several moments, stepped back and allowed her to pass through the front door. His heart began to twist, more than the other times she had left. He feared he may never see her again and his eyes widened.

"I love you," he managed to rasp out in realisation.

But she was gone now.

A/N: Oh my god! I'm so sorry, this is a very long one but I had to stop it here because its become WAY too long. But those who read this, don't fear, because the next part is coming tomorrow. Promise!