Fade Into Me

My Queen

Klaus numbly came closer to the little wooden stand where her body lay covered with a white shroud, her mother was crying helplessly and her father just stared incredulous at the body. Klaus only heard them, he couldn't look at anyone else; he only had eyes for her.
His hand was shaking as he reached out to her face; Klaus took a deep breath and slowly removed the shroud exposing her to him.

A tear streamed down his face, part of him still didn't want to believe any of it but there she rested, his sweet Caroline.
Dead.

Klaus cupped her cold cheek, she was still the most beautiful girl he had ever seen, she would always be. He bent down and kissed her lifeless lips, lingering in them knowing he wasn't allowed to kiss them ever again, he rested his forehead against hers still unable to say goodbye to her, he pulled away looking at her one last time before he covered her face with the laced fabric again.

Kol and a few others slowly carried her body placing it inside the little boat that according to the village belief would carry her to the Gods where she would be happy and watch over her loved ones. It wasn't until they set fire to her dead body and he saw the river taking her away from him in flames that it hit Klaus completely, he had been too late to save her. He fell to his knees in so much pain that he cursed being a vampire even more, it made him feel the ripping pain of her loss twice as hard.

"CAROLINE!" he yelled to the skies forsaking the Gods, his parents and everyone that had stolen her away from him, that had placed his heart inside that boat and had set it on fire.
Elijah knelt taking his sobbing brother into his arms and hurting with him, wishing there was a way to take all this pain away from him.

Klaus clutched the dirt in his hands, the Gods had made him this, he had lost her but in true Viking way he would take revenge on everyone, every witch, every man and every woman who dared to outlive her. He would drain them all and rejoice in it, in their blood because she was gone, she was not by his side anymore and no other woman would ever take her place because no other woman was worthy of it.

There was only one Queen for him and she was dead. Heads would role and he would inflict pain on others as much as his father had inflicted on him with every single beating, he would make mothers cry their children like Caroline's mother was painfully mourning now, there would not be happiness allowed around him because he was dead as well.
Klaus clenched his jaw and raised his head high, staring into the horizon where his Caroline burned, he slowly got up moving away from Elijah, they had made him a monster; it was time he paid them back for the favour.

Klaus' memories were coming back as fast as Caroline's tears, they were alone in the VIP room now. He closed his eyes holding her shaking body, he buried his head in her hair again, taking her now familiar scent in; it had to be impossible that was this was her, that his Caroline was in his arms.

"Please stop crying sweetheart." he whispered stroking her back with his strong hands.
Caroline was finally calming down pushing another painful memory of her own away and slowly pulled away from him, he cupped her face concerned; she looked so tired.

"You are here... it's really you. It's really us..." she whispered touching his chest.
Klaus smiled and stroked her cheek. "Yes love..."

Caroline sniffled as he cleaned her face from these tears; she looked into his eyes remembering all the times she had done so in the past.
Klaus leaned over slowly and touched her lips with his, a flash of new memories assaulting him; Caroline moved her hand to his hair and opened her mouth slightly, it all still felt surreal. Klaus smiled stroking her face and tilted her head kissing her deeply and thoroughly, she glued herself to his body.

It was her turn to smile as he kissed her lips softly ending their kiss, impossible or not, she was here, it was her, it had always been her. That's why something always pulled him to her, why he had been blinded by jealousy and killed Mason. He couldn't allow anyone else to have Caroline, she was his, the idea alone was preposterous. A wave of rage coming over him as he recalled Brady and then Tyler... All that they had put her through.