She nods, and she can't stop the way her eyes water and he ends up with tears on his fingers. She gives a little self-depreciating laugh, and shakes her head, still not saying anything, and then she looks up at him, shrugging like what're you going to do? "Can we try this again? I'm just- I'm scared. And I don't want to go home, and we can talk, and Klaus-" It's the first time she's said his name to him since she's arrived, and she's staring up at him, and she leans up to kiss him, and it's sweet and oddly innocent and it's Caroline, real, honest, not putting on a sham Caroline, and she's pouring herself into it because she's made a choice about that, too, and this is it.