Finally I'd finished class and was heading to my dorm. Klaus had apparently disappeared from campus, leaving me and that was good. After our meeting yesterday and what he said it was the best thing that could have happened. I didn't want to get too attached to him. I'd probably never see him again. But it was better that way, all of my friends had disapproved of our flirting from the start. Even though Elena approved it now... But my mom wouldn't have.

The corridor was eerily empty as I walked slowly through the building. It was calmer though because in every person that walked past I always saw the face of Stefan or Klaus. Klaus... The one man who made me weak at the knees. Who made my heart race, but he wasn't Stefan. Maybe Stefan had found peace, and my mom. It was her death anniversary today... My head pounded from the emotions hitting me. The grief was so strong, too strong. In fact it was too much. The words which I'd never read in my mom's letter. How I'd never see her again. How I'd never see Stefan again.

I screamed then, the thoughts too painful. I promised Stefan I would live but I never promised not to turn it off.

I stopped in the middle of the corridor and I did the one thing I thought I'd never do again. I turned off my humanity.

"Miss are you okay?" The janitor came around the corner, smiling.

"I'm fine," I grinned.

My fangs pierced his neck as I drank from him. And the best part of it all was I felt absolutely nothing. No guilt. No loss. Nothing. And it was brilliant.

"Love, you look like you've just come back from war." I knew that husky voice: Klaus. I let the body fall the floor.

I felt nothing as I turned to face him. "Maybe I have-" I leant against a locker as I watched him approach me. "- Not that you'd care, you just disappeared from campus and left me."

"Caroline, I was giving you space." Klaus stood in front of me, his blue eyes staring down at me. "I must go back to New Orleans but I have one last thing to say to- "

"I don't care." I pushed past him.

"Caroline love, you didn't turn if off did you?" Klaus' voice was panicked as he walked after me, pushing me against the wall. "Caroline Forbes you cannot give in just like that." He held my neck as his jaw clenched. "I thought you'd know better."

My slap echoed through the hallway as I pushed him off of me. "No, okay. Klaus, Stefan's gone, my mom's gone and I cannot just move on like that. It hurt too much so I cut my ties and now I'm free."

"I'll wait until you turn them on then. I have waited this long a few more decades will be nothing," Klaus' British accent was flawless as he snapped at me.

"You're pathetic you know, waiting for me, it will never happen." I pushed my hands through my hair. "I will never love a monster like you."

"I promise you I will be your last," Klaus whispered.

"Last what?" I stepped forward.

"I will be your last-"

"You know what I don't want to know, just go," I snapped, trying to walk away. "Leave and stay the hell out of my life!"

Klaus grabbed my wrist, pulling me against him. "Will you just listen to me?"

"Fine," I sighed. It was the only way I would get him off of me. "I'll listen to the unloved monster who won't leave me alone. I'd thought you'd have gotten used to the feeling of not being wanted after a century." I looked away from him then.

"You, my love are someone I can never forget. When I left all I could think about was you," Klaus paused. "The person who ever since I met I've been in love with. And I understand if I've hurt you and I respect that. I am a monster and I am disrespectful and I am pathetic waiting for you. And if you say here and now that you want me to leave, I will love. I promise I will never come back, you'll never have to see me again, ever. But please... Caroline look at me, please. I know you do not care at this moment in time, but please."

I turned my neck to face him, a clap of thunder resounding above us. Klaus looked weak, his skin with a greyish hint, mouth a thin line. Tears slowly fell from his eyes in synch with the pattering of the new rain outside. Klaus Mikaelson, the hybrid, the most powerful immortal in the world was crying. Because of me.

I reached forward. His tears were cold on my thumbs as I brushed them from his cheeks, my hands cradling the hybrids face. "Turning on the water works doesn't change anything Klaus. I don't care. I turned if off, I feel nothing. Just leave and go rule New Orleans, destroy lives."

"I know you turned it off, love," Klaus' blue eyes bore into mine, another clap of thunder sounding. "I may be the most powerful being in the world but I am weak, your absence makes me weak. You have been the only thing that is right in all that I have done. You've changed me, I no longer kill and just think about myself. You have that much control over me, you are the person who after hundreds of years made me realise my heart still beats. That I could love again. But I need to know something, before I leave for good. Did you ever - when I sent you the gifts, caught your eye, spoke to you - did you ever feel something? Because..." Klaus sighed. "I am in love with you Caroline Forbes, I always have been."

Something hit me then as his words sunk in. Grief and sadness and loss came rushing back amongst something else, something far stronger than all the rest: love. "Klaus..." I caught another tear on my thumb. The sensation of his face in my hands eliciting goosebumps now. "If I didn't feel anything I wouldn't have let you speak, I wouldn't have listened to what you had to say. And I've listened and I think -" I leant back "- I think I can't have my heart broken again. I can't love someone knowing that I can lose them. Emotions hurt too much at the moment."

Klaus took my hands from his face then, taking them in his own. "I understand love. I'm glad you're back." Klaus walked to the end of the corridor and then looked back at me once before the door clicked softly shut behind him.

My hands felt cold as I watched the door to see if Klaus would come back, the rain now harder on the roof. He wasn't. I felt an ache then, in my chest, the person who was always there for me was walking away. I yearned for his touch in that moment, for him to come back and hold me in his arms. I knew what I had to do. I ran to the door and bolted after him. My trainers made heavy, wet sounds as I ran after the hybrid.

"Klaus! Stop please." I grabbed his arm, spinning him around to face me. My hair now plastered to my neck. "I'm so sorry. I've lost so much, and you have to, and you've been there this whole time for over sixty years and you haven't given up, stopped loving me-" I wound my arms around his neck. "- and I haven't stopped loving you either. I loved Tyler he was my first and Stefan... He was the one but you Klaus, you'll be my last."

"Caroline love, I would want nothing more than for you to be by my side," Klaus looked down at me his hair dripping from the rain. "You've kept me waiting long enough."

"Klaus." I pulled him closer. "Don't ever leave me, because I can't-"

"Love, I promise you I will never leave you." Klaus took my face in his hands. "Caroline I'm in love you, why would I hurt you?"

I leant forward then, my lips against his. The rain seeped through my clothes, drenched my skin but I didn't care. I was kissing Klaus, slowly and passionately. Our tongues dancing to the rhythm of the rain. Lightning flashed as we pulled apart, breathing heavy.

"Eternity?" I whispered, the word no longer heavy.

"My love, I'd go anywhere with you. Now let's finish college as I've never exactly gotten a formal education," Klaus whispered back. "Perhaps that's why I'm so bad."

"Nah," I laughed. "You're just a psycho."

Klaus chuckled before lightly kissing me again. "It appears there is a hello in goodbye, love."