Gravity

I'll be waiting for you

Caroline came out of the bathroom smiling at Klaus who was leaning against the window frame of their bedroom with his arms crossed over his chest.

"You know, I was thinking that since you have to go check on your hybrids anyway that you could drop me off at school this morning."

She told him with that heartbreaking smile of hers, she carelessly sat on the bed and zipped her black boots up, she looked happy this morning and she was going on about something but he was too devoted in finding something different about her, he couldn't shake Elijah's worried words, had she been hiding something from him? Could she even? Something as huge as this?

He tensed his jaw and looked at the breathtaking woman smiling at him and felt rage take over him, he couldn't help it, they had promised to share everything, to erase secrets between them but there she was, smiling and talking like nothing was going on.

If Elijah was right and she was hiding something from them... from him... God help him because he would kill Caroline for it, he would.

Klaus sighed inwardly, he wouldn't lay a single finger on her and that was the dreadful truth, he rather die than ever hurt Caroline even when she betrayed his trust.

"Have you actually been listening to a word I just said?" she laughed and came closer to him, framing his face into her soft hands as she lovingly waited for an answer.

It was a sweet torture that made him bleed like no other.

She stroked his face with her thumbs and whispered. "Why are you so serious today?"

Usually he would have smiled because she always managed to melt every ice wall that was part of him but today was an exception.

"What's wrong? Why are you on hybrid serious business mood?"

"You're not being true to me." he finally said with bitterness.

Caroline frowned at first. "Don't be silly." she kissed him on the lips easily.

As much as he wanted to answer her irresistible lure he would not give into Caroline today, and she would not win this time, he took her by the arm to the dressing table and once there he slammed the mirror down on the cluttered surface.

Caroline was mostly in shock to actually react but still tried to speak. "Nik... what are you doing?"

He didn't say anything, instead he grabbed her hand and used a broken piece of the mirror to make a gushing open wound on her ivory palm.

Caroline cringed in pain and forced her teeth together taking her eyes away from all the blood pouring out of her open hand to face him, Klaus was about to go into true ruthless killer mood and it all dawned on her, he knew.

"You hid this from me." he hissed as eerie as he felt.

Caroline looked down on her palm that still bled, it was taking a lot more this time to heal than it did the time she cut herself in the kitchen. "When did you find out?" she asked not being able to maintain the eye contact, she couldn't look at him.

"Elijah mentioned your concern about Esther and hasn't it occurred to you that I would be expecting this? That I was counting on you to tell me if you felt anything different Caroline?" he spoke louder now, still restraining his verging shouts.

Caroline jerked her hand away from his and wrapped her scarf around the open wound. "There was nothing to tell..." she said with her eyes on her hand avoiding his knife-like staring.

Klaus took a deep unnatural breath and she expected him to shove her against the wall any second now but instead he moved around her, he rubbed the back of his neck and shook his head.