You've asked me to go other places. It was a preemptive advisory.
( she's still not sure what would have happened if she had. but it's water under the bridge now, a choice made and a future determined that can't be changed. )
I was gone a few days, or a few years. It depends on which universe you ask, I guess.
You came back to Mystic Falls to tell me the truth. I wanted to return the favor, now that I've come back here.
Are you playing with selective amnesia or do you actually not remember?
( she isn't longing for a reunion to match that one evening in the woods, but she does find it. strange. that he somehow has no idea what she's talking about. )
Before coming to New Amsterdam, I did see you in Mystic Falls, and I could refer to that as telling a sort of truth. The last time would have been over fifteen years before that. Or just about. If you mean then, then of course I remember, Caroline.
( She gave into her desires, after all. Whether it was pent up aggression in his direction or pent up energy from Katerina on her deathbed or with the quarterback having been buried alive, she took the moment to admit their connection to herself, only to end it completely. )
I also you remember me promising to never come back, and, what I'd assume would be an extra stipulation in never mentioning it again, yet here you are. Bringing it up. Is this you telling me that our connection defies universes?
Please don't tell me you think I woke up from a mixed-universe coma just tell you I wanted to hook up with you in the woods again, Klaus.
( please! she has standards! self-control! and she shredded those desires and his horse drawing with the sort of defiance only the first foray into adulthood can provide! )
We will always be connected â by what we are, by what we've done, by how many ways we've made each other suffer. I wanted you to know I knew you, because I thought that meant something. I know you now, not just as Hope's dad or a man I met here once before, but as the Klaus who saved my life on my birthday and who made me promises that couldn't possibly come true. That Klaus is someone I respect. Someone I trust.
I didn't message you to make some kind of grand declaration or ask you to reconsider your travel plans. I just wanted to clear the air.
( does that help? does it hurt? she's more the woman he remembers these days, not the girl he'd come to get to know â but there's still an ocean of not happening between them in more ways than one. )
Not once did I think you were looking for another hook-up. In truth? I forget you hadn't yet met me, the real me before coming here. Now, I understand what you meant, and I appreciate your reaching out to let me know. You are also someone I trust. And respect. It seems that I'm from fourteen years your senior, but, it does feel as if there is less distance between us than there once was.
( she's not entirely sure she believes the "not once", but caroline lets it slide. she's not that petty anymore. )
Fourteen years is a long time.
( it's only been a few, in her experience, and she's already grown so much. learned so much. suffered, too. she's loved and lost and hurt and felt so much happiness she thought she'd die all over again from it â and yet, even now, she's all too aware she'll someday have more to experience.
hope had told her as much, and then caroline had asked her not to continue. not to spoil her, as if her own life was a movie. klaus had held his tongue as well, though caroline had never had to ask him. maybe hope did for her.
but now? now she thinks she might want to know. )
There's something I wanted to ask you. Before you came back here, Hope and I were talking about things we remembered, trying to piece out the differences between her Mystic Falls and mine. She was going to tell me something about myself, but I asked her not to. I didn't want to know. Honestly, I think part of me was afraid she was going to tell me I wound up married to Matt and bored out of my mind.
( He knows she wouldn't "want" a hook-up after the forest, and if this were fourteen years later? It would be the last thing on either of their minds. Besides, Klaus is personally embroiled in someone else - as confounding as that is. But, it's as slow moving as it usually is, so at least that keeps him sane. Don't admit it to yourself or someone else. Just keep looking forward. Be sweet to them. Hurt them a little personally. Repeat. )
If you truly wish me to, I can tell you. I will say you did not marry the Quarterback.
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( she's still not sure what would have happened if she had. but it's water under the bridge now, a choice made and a future determined that can't be changed. )
I was gone a few days, or a few years. It depends on which universe you ask, I guess.
You came back to Mystic Falls to tell me the truth. I wanted to return the favor, now that I've come back here.
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When did I return to Mystic Falls? To what truth are you referring?
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( she isn't longing for a reunion to match that one evening in the woods, but she does find it. strange. that he somehow has no idea what she's talking about. )
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Before coming to New Amsterdam, I did see you in Mystic Falls, and I could refer to that as telling a sort of truth. The last time would have been over fifteen years before that. Or just about. If you mean then, then of course I remember, Caroline.
( She gave into her desires, after all. Whether it was pent up aggression in his direction or pent up energy from Katerina on her deathbed or with the quarterback having been buried alive, she took the moment to admit their connection to herself, only to end it completely. )
I also you remember me promising to never come back, and, what I'd assume would be an extra stipulation in never mentioning it again, yet here you are. Bringing it up. Is this you telling me that our connection defies universes?
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( please! she has standards! self-control! and she shredded those desires and his horse drawing with the sort of defiance only the first foray into adulthood can provide! )
We will always be connected â by what we are, by what we've done, by how many ways we've made each other suffer. I wanted you to know I knew you, because I thought that meant something. I know you now, not just as Hope's dad or a man I met here once before, but as the Klaus who saved my life on my birthday and who made me promises that couldn't possibly come true. That Klaus is someone I respect. Someone I trust.
I didn't message you to make some kind of grand declaration or ask you to reconsider your travel plans. I just wanted to clear the air.
( does that help? does it hurt? she's more the woman he remembers these days, not the girl he'd come to get to know â but there's still an ocean of not happening between them in more ways than one. )
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Fourteen years is a long time.
( it's only been a few, in her experience, and she's already grown so much. learned so much. suffered, too. she's loved and lost and hurt and felt so much happiness she thought she'd die all over again from it â and yet, even now, she's all too aware she'll someday have more to experience.
hope had told her as much, and then caroline had asked her not to continue. not to spoil her, as if her own life was a movie. klaus had held his tongue as well, though caroline had never had to ask him. maybe hope did for her.
but now? now she thinks she might want to know. )
There's something I wanted to ask you. Before you came back here, Hope and I were talking about things we remembered, trying to piece out the differences between her Mystic Falls and mine. She was going to tell me something about myself, but I asked her not to. I didn't want to know. Honestly, I think part of me was afraid she was going to tell me I wound up married to Matt and bored out of my mind.
I was hoping you might be able to tell me now.
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If you truly wish me to, I can tell you. I will say you did not marry the Quarterback.