April 24

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Right on the heels of her relief, restlessness seems to steal into Caroline. Klaus has absolutely no problem following her to the holodeck, if that is what she wants. They take Star, too, because the wolf has earned the right to run around the countryside, after spending so long in a cramped space with so many humans, and not mauling any of them.

They lock the door once they're inside, and since Caroline seems to hesitate which simulation to run, Klaus speaks up. "Computer. An isolated village in Eastern Europe. Twenty-first century Earth." That way Star can run as much as he wants, and they can have a feast if Caroline feels like it.

Klaus certainly feels like it.

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They ate, first. Both of them, bags of blood, mugs of it, and she wasn't willing or able to talk about what and why and how right then. Just that she wanted to go, and she asked him shortly, if he wanted to come with her.

She'd never asked him before; there had been the one text message two months ago - I need you - and besides that, she'd not specifically asked him to come, she'd been doing it herself. Hunting.

But now is different, and she's got to move, and that's what's got her asking him and both of them are in the deck, and just like that, it's a rolling hillside with scrubby bushes, a small village nestled in a valley. She doesn't wait for him so much as she can tell when he's beside her, and that's when she moves, catching his eye more than once.

The first one's easy. A man, who'd leered at Caroline when he saw her, all blond hair and the same pajamas she's been in for two days. She approached him, her smile nearly genuine-- and when he pushed off the wall he was leaning on to come closer, she just moved, unable to stop the small yell of surprise from the man as she bit down - and, in her haste, missed the artery.

It wasn't going well, and it was only seconds later that she took him - if you could call him a him, given that this wasn't real - and slammed his head back into the wall behind him, blood streaking her mouth and skin. He'd struggled. She was less than amused, but she turned to see Klaus with his face buried in the neck of some woman, and she pulled in a breath. All she could think - was that she should have brought him sooner. "Good?" This was so different - so morally different, as weird as that sounds.