Many thanks to my amazing beta Anastasia Dreams!

We shall meet again

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With each other till the end οf time...

Still see the promise in your eyes…
Even when you sleep…

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"My brother never lets go of what belongs to him…

Klaus has stored us in coffins and kept us with him as he traveled the earth for decades. If you ask me in his twisted way this was a sign of affection. In his mind this was his way to keep those that he loved safe and near him.

After a millennia he opened his heart again, well Caroline I don't know why but he cares about you and maybe a stake would kill you, but if nothing else my brother has always been resourceful."

Rebekah had warned her centuries ago.

Caroline has been with Klaus for centuries now. He had stopped being Klaus for her. Now he was her Nik.

He was there for her when, after her mother's death, she had turned her emotions off and he was the only one that had been able to get through to her. Against her will he had locked her away in one of his mansions in the Alps and for months he kept trying to get her to turn her emotions on. He didn't compel her, but he kept trying. He was gentle and forceful, irritating and unrelenting and all that because he admired her humanity. He was the one that comforted her after all those painful feelings came rushing back in waves.

After she regained her human emotions she found something in him that like gravity was pulling her close. She stayed with him, first for some months, then for some years and eventually for almost 500 centuries.

He never broke a promise, he never compelled her and he always respected her.

He showed her the world and he kept her close to him. He showed her that there was a side of him that would always remain cruel, but also showed her that he still had a heart; A heart that now belonged to her.

For centuries he kept his word, he had promised never to lie to her. Sometimes he would manipulate or bend the truth, but he had never lied.

Until the moment that he found out that another doppelganger had surfaced. Until the moment she realized she had lost him. He started keeping secrets from her and he was turning back into the obsessed man he used to be. To the man that repulsed her and that she feared.

Many would say that he had never changed, not truly, but she knew better. The man that was holding her, making love to her, whispering sweet nothings in her ear with his melodic voice was not evil. The man that showed her the genuine beauty in the world, that kept drawing her for centuries and that would smile with her at her neurotic issues could not be evil.

But now Nik was gone and Klaus was back and he was ready to destroy lives again.

But she could not allow that to happen. Not when his doppelganger looked so much like Elena. Not when Elijah, Stefan and even Damon had pleaded with her to help them change Klaus's mind. Not when she was afraid that all that meant that Nik, her Nik, was losing his humanity and then she would lose him. Because when she lost her humanity they grew closer to each other, but if Nik would lose his humanity then they would grow apart.

The moment that she gave him her ultimatum was when she knew that she lost him. He had slipped through her fingers and she didn't even notice. Klaus was back with a vengeance.

She had never done such a thing before, but this time she was determined, he had to make his choice and he couldn't have it both ways, it would be either her or his hybrid obsession

She should have known better. Klaus would never let her go and he would never let go of his obsession to create an army of hybrids either.

He had promised never to hurt her again and now he was breaking his promise in the worse way possible.

He wasn't letting her go; he was keeping her with him. After all the centuries they spent together he considered her to be his family, his wife, his possession. And that meant forever and always neither she liked it or not.

He was holding her from her waist, supporting her weight as the potion he had slipped in her drink was running through her veins. She was losing consciousness as he picked her up, carried her through the corridors and then put her inside an open coffin.

He had planned everything and she now understood that all this time in his mind this must have been a possibility in case she would ever try to leave him.

She wanted to plead with him not to do this to her, but she was just weakly mumbling words that refused to come out of her mouth as Klaus was telling her that in end all would be alright. His words were promising her a bright future after the nightmare would end.

She could barely keep her eyes open and she whimpered as he placed an enchanted pendant around her neck. Dread was consuming her. He was doing to her what he had done to his siblings so many times in the past.

He was locking her into a coffin. She couldn't even make a sound anymore as his lips caressed hers into a soothing and terrifying farewell kiss. Her skin was turning cold. Her body was rapidly mummifying and she felt like she was slowly losing herself into an abyss.

"We shall meet again, my love," he said as he caressed her hair like only a tender lover would.

"When this is all over we will be together again. I promise," he whispered as a single tear slowly fell down on his cheek.

Her eyes fluttered, his image blurring and eventually her eyelids closed; she wanted to find a way to beg him not to do this to her, but she couldn't even move. She was paralyzed. Darkness enveloped her as she heard the lid of the coffin closing. She could only hear her own heartbeat slowing down. She was trapped in the dark and everything was fading. There was no noise or air. Stillness and inertia.

The last thing she heard in her mind before she lost her senses and herself into an endless dreamless slumber was the echo of Rebekah's words from centuries ago…

"Klaus has stored us in coffins and kept us with him as he traveled the earth for decades…in his twisted way this was a sign of affection….In his mind this was his way to keep those that he loved safe and near him…

…After a millennia he opened his heart again, he cares about you Caroline…

…my brother never lets go what belongs to him…"

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…So I say, goodnight sweet girl…

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Song : James Marsters : Goodnight sweet girl

First and foremost: Hello! Hola! How you doing?

I hope that you liked this little one-shot and... no I am not abandoning my other stories.

Well lately I've been experiencing a writer's block which in all honesty is an awful experience! Ugh! So I started writing some one-shots in order to force my muse to come out and play. And he did! (yes my muse is a male and has a striking resemblance to Joseph Morgan!) Ha!

So in the next days I will be posting some other drabbles too while I have started working on Possession's new chapter ;) Hopefully it won't take long!

Plus the Klaroline scenes from 4x06 are creating so many images and ideas in my head! (Bring me episode 4x07 NOW!)

Last but not least:

I've been nominated in the Klaroline awards! I want to thank anyone that liked my stories enough in order to nominate me! Thank you all so much!

You should all go and vote, not especially me (although I would really like it!) but give a shot to every category! It means a lot to everyone that is nominated and it is a beautiful gesture ;) Check out the nominations at klarolineawards at tumblr.

So about my nominations, I see that I am generally considered a dark writer? Really? Cool! Me gusta! So I resign to my fate and dark stories here I come!

One-shots is a new concept for me so tell me what you think ;)