What If ⚜️ {Klaroline}

CHAPTER 8: HUMMINGBIRD

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Klaus broke through her mental barrier easily. He was surprised to find some in the first place, but her resistance was nothing to his superior mental strength. That could only mean one thing though, she knew when she was compelled, which meant she has been compelled before, multiple times, systematically to have such an awareness about it.

He suddenly saw that they were in the woods somewhere deep inside Mystic Falls forest.

"Tyler," he heard her whisper the name and turned to see her, instead he saw a dark-haired boy look in her direction with apologetic eyes. Klaus, following the werewolf's gaze, came across the sight of a blond, middle-aged woman he recognized as the one he had killed in the ritual. She had pushed Caroline, holding her against a trailer, face pressed to the cold metal. Caroline seemed weak and tortured as she begged her friend with her eyes, to help her.

He didn't.

Coward! Klaus thought angrily as he stormed to save the young vampire, he shoved the old version of Jules away after he ripped out her heart, for the second time. God, he was glad he had killed her!

Caroline turned to look at him with confused and a little bit scared eyes.

"Klaus?!" she whispered as the scene blurred around. Klaus caught her before she could fall to the ground and held her closer to his chest. "What is happening to me?!"

"It's okay love, I've got you."

And with his last words he drew her away from the horrendous scene.

She felt that she was whooshed away from the previous scene and moments after felt a tree, instead of the cold metal of the truck pressing on her back.

"Sweetheart, are you feeling all right?!" she heard him saying in a seemingly worried tone. Klaus inwardly congratulated himself for his acting skills. Although deep down, he knew it wasn't all an act. She opened her eyes to see that she was still in the woods. But she could tell that she wasn't in Mystic Falls' woods and that she wasn't imprisoned in her memory anymore.

Firstly, because she could see the sunlight creeping through the woods slowly warming the chilly air, instead of the pitch darkness that surrounded her just seconds before seeing Klaus and secondly because she could see the difference between the green of these woods and the green of the woods in her hometown. Even the trees seemed to be different from those in her town. But what really gave it away, was the feeling of buzzing in her head, she had learned till now to recognize that feeling, it was a sign that someone was in her head.

"You are in my mind, aren't you?" She asked surprisingly calm not leaving his deep blue orbs out of her sight, not even for a second "You're... Compelling me?"

The tone of her voice screamed apprehension.

"Actually" Klaus started on defense "I'm giving you an escapade from the most horrible pain." He stated.

She let Klaus help her stand up, she was too lost in the beauty around her to complain about it.

"Where are we?" she asked as she watched the scene mesmerized. They were on a track somewhere and she could see a very thin mass of fog disappearing as the sun grew stronger and the chilly air became slightly warmer.

"In the Andes," he said, his eyes almost watering as he saw a hummingbird flying towards them. "We are in my memories now," he added a few seconds later.

"It's beautiful," Caroline said wistfully.

Klaus smiled and looked at her. Studying her face carefully, especially her impressible and glowing blue eyes. He could watch them inspecting the people and the places for the rest of his existence and not be bored by it.