With Many Happy Returns [Klaroline]

I dreamed a dream

“Klaus?” Caroline called out hesitantly as she moved through the large compound that was the hybrid’s New Orleans residence.

There was a strange silence around her and for a moment Caroline wondered if they were out looking for her. Maybe her friends had found out she was missing and called Klaus from Mystic Falls.

As it turned out that hadn’t been necessary. Apparently, Esther was a lot easier to be reasoned with than expected. Saying no was all it took for Esther to let her go.

It had seemed too good to be true, but Caroline was just happy to be out of there. The witch had even told her where she could find Klaus so she could go back to her friends in Mystic Falls as quickly as possible.

“Anyone here?” Caroline asked into thin air, but no one answered.

With a small sigh, Caroline widened her senses and frowned when strange noises met her supernatural ears. It almost sounded as if someone was struggling with someone else and Caroline immediately flashed towards the sound.

She made it to the room within a couple of seconds and then slowly pushed at the already open door to look inside. It looked like some sort of common room with adjoining doors into a large bedroom. But the large room and its expensive looking furniture weren’t what made Caroline lose her breath.

Because just across from her were Klaus and Hayley; naked and up against a wall. Hayley was wrapped around Klaus’ hips and pressed against the wall as Klaus thrusted inside her again and again. Hayley’s mouth was open in a soundless moan while Klaus was busy biting into her neck.

“Oh my God.” Caroline whispered as she finally got back her voice and then flashed away, hoping they hadn’t noticed her.

She wasn’t that lucky though as she was suddenly cut off by Klaus, who had had somehow managed to put on a pair of pants with unbelievable speed, leaving him only shirtless.

“Caroline.” he greeted with a careless voice and an indifferent look in his eyes. Caroline quickly took a long step away from him as she blinked rapidly to get rid of the tears in her eyes.

She hated that she wanted to cry because of what she had just seen and just the mere smell of Hayley all over the hybrid’s body made her nauseous.  

“Klaus.” she said with a small nod and forced herself to meet his gaze. “I was just leaving.”

“Why are you here?” Klaus asked with a cock of his head, but he didn’t really seem that curious about it.

“Your mother, she brought me here. She thought I could convince you to take her offer by becoming human myself. When I said no she let me go. I just needed your help to get back to Mystic Falls, but I see you’re busy.” Caroline snapped at him as she crossed her arms. She was getting angry with him and it felt nice to be distracted from her hurt feelings.

“My mother really has lost her touch.” Klaus laughed maniacally and then took a step closer to Caroline. “Why do you think she took you, love?”

Caroline couldn’t help but gulp at the tone of his voice and the way he was looking at her with amusement. There was something completely off about the way he said her name and called her ‘love’. It made her heart race in a completely different way than it used to.

“I don’t know…” Caroline replied with a small shrug, but Klaus just smirked at her. Of course she knew.

“Because of our connection, perhaps?” he suggested with a raised brow that made Caroline suck in breath.

“I guess.” was all she managed to choke out and she noticed how Klaus seemed to revel in the fact that she was scared of him.

“I suppose you told her about our day in the woods then. How you made me promise to never come back.” Klaus said with a nonsensical voice that left Caroline confused.

“Wh-what?” Caroline stammered and took another step backwards as Klaus took one forward, making him smile maliciously.

“Well, the only reason why she let you go must have been because she knew that you meant nothing to me now.” Klaus explained with a shrug and Caroline felt the tears well back into her eyes. “Now that is out of systems we have moved on. Isn’t that true?”

“I- I need to go.” Caroline told him as she tried to move past him, but he quickly grabbed her arm and shoved her against a nearby wall. She yelped in pain as the back of her head connected with the wall, but Klaus didn’t seem to care the slightest as he loomed over her.

“You see, love. All I really ever wanted was a taste of you.” Klaus said as he leaned down and sniffed the side of her neck, making her jerk in his hold of her. “And you were delicious.”

Before Caroline could even reply, Klaus’ lips crushed against hers in a bruising kiss and Caroline felt how panic spread through her body. She placed her hands against his chest as she tried to push him away with all of her strength, but it only succeeded when he stepped away himself a couple of seconds later.

“Get away from me, you psychopath!” Caroline yelled at him and shoved him away to the other side of the hall.

“Psychopath?” Klaus asked with a faked hurt expression on his face that was quickly overtook by a smirk. “I thought you saw the good in me.”

“Or are you finally beginning to understand what your little friends were telling you?” Klaus continued as he moved forward once more and Caroline pressed herself as close to the wall as possible. “There is no good in me, Caroline. You just believed that because I made you feel special. Truth is you’re not.”

“Go to hell.” Caroline sneered at him and took a step forward in anger.

“You are nothing, love, but stupid, shallow and useless to all of your friends. That’s why you were always the distraction. You were just the sacrificial lamb that they sent in to the lion’s den.” Klaus told her calmly with a smirk on his lips and this time Caroline couldn’t stop the tear that travelled down her cheek.

“You’re a monster!” she yelled at him and the stinging sound of a slap rang through the hall as her hand connected with his cheek. His head snapped to the side with the punch, but Caroline didn’t have time to run before his hand curled around her neck.

“That I am, my love. And I look forward to showing you exactly how right you are.” Klaus mused as Caroline slowly choked in his grip. He stared at her for a couple of seconds more before twisting his hand and Caroline fell to the floor with a broken neck.