This is the last chapter of my story. Thank you for reading it all the way to end. Anyways. Warning: some major angst in this chapter. I wasn't sure whether or not this should be the ending but my friend convinced me. Don't hate me too much.

"What. The. Hell." Caroline felt her eyes water. No she wouldn't cry. She will be strong. "Why are you doing this? What do you get out of this deal? You've literally always been about self-preservation. What's with the sacrifice with being the martyr now?" She felt a tear slip down her cheek and wiped it away.

"Caroline I have to do this. It's for my family, for you." he insisted. Caroline shook her head. "NO. No. No." she said forcefully. Klaus moved towards her and cupped her face in his hands. "Klaus I'm sorry." she said, her voice cracking at the end.

"For what?" he asked.

"I'm sorry about what i said. I didn't mean it. I was just angry. I'm sorry. Just please dot leave me."

Klaus felt as if he heart was being physically ripped out of his chest. He would have to leave her. Its the only way to keep her safe. He wouldn't be able to protect her anymore if he was gone. He glanced at the clock quickly. Thirty seconds. "Caroline, I have exactly thirty seconds left to live and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else in the world." More tears slipped down Caroline's cheeks and a sob escaped her throat.

Klaus felt his own eyes burn but blinked away the tears. He pulled her closer to him and wrapped his arms around her body. He felt her arms tighten around his neck and he just held her. He didn't care that she dripping wet. He didn't care that all that remained was twenty-two seconds. He would enjoy those seconds because they would be all he would get.

There was nothing else that mattered. It was just them. For twenty-two seconds time stopped. "Caroline you need to leave now." He had ten seconds left. Marcel would be here then. He couldn't run. Wouldn't run. "No." she choked out as sobs wracked her body.

Klaus pulled away from her slowly. "Leave Caroline. Now." She shook her head. Five seconds. He looked at her blue eyes. Four. "I" Three. "Love" Two. "You." One. He heard it before he felt it.

He heard Marcel burst in. He heard Marcel push him against a wall. But he also heard something else. He was sure it was a hallucination. However what proceeded proved to him that it wasn't. There was a sweet sound. And then there was nothing.

Caroline heard Marcel burst in and shove Klaus against a wall. He hesitated for a second. Just one single second. That was all she needed. She uttered the words that she had wanted to say before. " I love you, too." Marcel shoved the white oak stake into Klaus' heart after. She felt herself fall down and heard the sobs escape her body. She cried harder than she had ever cried before. He died. And now he'll never know that she loved him. He died thinking that she hated him. Marcel disappeared and Klaus' body went with him.

She just lay sat there. Crying. She could have cried for hours. Perhaps it was only minutes. After awhile she stopped crying. She got up and ran to the airport. She books a flight to Morocco. She stays there for a week. She cries herself to sleep every single night. When she does sleep she dreams of him. Not of memories of him, but memories she could have had with him. She keeps tabs on Hayley and Hope though. They left New Orleans a few days after Caroline did.

She travels all around the world after. She goes everywhere. Except for Paris. Never Rome. Never Tokyo. No. Those were places thy were supposed to go together. She sees the Greek beaches and Snowy mountains. She scours every inch of the world always looking but never finding. She speaks to witches. Bonnie tried to help her. But she cant. One day she gets a call from Bonnie saying that she found a way to make Elena wake up. She goes to Mystic Falls. She stays there for awhile. She finds out that Alric had twin witches. She finds out that Elena took the cure and Damon was going to take it too.

Shes happy for her friends. She and Alaric decide to open a school for witches. Hayley even brings Hope to the school a while later. Her work keeps her distracted. She knows one day it wont hurt as much.

She lives with the guilt that he died and never knew hoe he felt. She considered turning it off. Not feeling that pain that came with his death. But she doesn't. He deserves more than that. He deserves to be grieved. And she does grieve him. Everyday. No matter how long she lives, she never stops loving him.

Maybe in another world, in another life they could have been together.

They could have been...

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Klaus is in a dark room. It's the same one where Caroline was. Freya had put a protection spell on him. He wouldn't die. Not yet. The last of the white oak burned and now he cant be killed. He is alone.

At night he dreams of dreams of the life she is having. In his dreams she is traveling the world. In his dreams she's opened a school in Mystic Falls for witches. He wonders how much of his dreams are real and how much are fake.

When he wakes up he thinks of Caroline. He wonders if she knows that he heard her. She loves him. Caroline Forbes loves Klaus Mikaelson. Who would have thought. He got the girl only to lose her. Life was too cruel.

He never stops loving her. He always thinks of her. She is his sanity. She is his humanity. She is everything to him.

He will love her forever. No matter how long he lives, he never stops loving her.

Most of all he thinks about how maybe things could have been different.

If they were different people, in another time, in an alternate universe, in another wold, in another life, they could have been together.

They could have been...

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The End

A/N So that's my story. The end was depressing I know I'm sorry. It was sooooooo much fun to write this fan fiction. Thank you to all the people that reviewed, favorited, and followed my story. It made my day to see the number go up whenever I logged in so thank you so much.

I have an idea for another story. I don't know what to name it or if I'll even write it. Also I might start a drabble series I don't know yet but i love drabbles so I could possibly do it.

Once again I would like to thank you so much for reading my story, i know its not very popular but I don't care. Thank you to those who read it. I hope you have a wonderful day. Happy reading!