When Cami fall in love with klaus and realized she was in love with Klaus in your opinion?
Anon 2: When did you think Cami knew she was in love with Klaus?
It is hard to pinpoint the exact moment when someone falls in love with another person. Love is built on many little moments until one day, without even noticing how it happened, you realize that that person has changed your life and you can’t imagine yourself without them. It’s a journey with no start or finish.
I do, however, believe that you can’t love someone without knowing them. And because of that, I would have to say that the moment I believe Camille O’Connell really started to love Klaus in the full sense of the word was when he let her in and showed her a fraction of his past back in episode 1x09.
You see, until then Klaus hid his true colors under charm and a cute accent, but she always knew there was more to him than that. It’s why she never gave up on him despite knowing all of the awful things he had done and was still doing. She believed there had to be something, some humanity left in him, but he wouldn’t let her in, and Cami could not love a person who didn’t even allow her to know them. So when Klaus showed her what had been done to him, he was meeting her halfway. It didn’t matter if it was just a small part of his past, it was something; it was proof that he was letting his guard down and letting her in. And in that moment, Camille O’Connell saw the Klaus Mikaelson she knew to be under that monster façade: someone with a good and pure heart who loved too deeply and had suffered too much. She could never be scared of him, because despite him only seeing a monster, she saw him as the most human he had ever been around her. Weak, vulnerable, and broken, but still beautiful. Still worth it.
I don’t know if she realized then and there that she loved him, but she did fall in love with that man. The man only few people knew, the man behind the monster, the man who was so similar to her. Who fought an inner battle between darkness and light, who was desperately holding to any humanity left despite everything he had been through. And the man who was worth fighting for.
As to when Camille actually realized she had feelings for Klaus, I’m not sure, but I am tempted to say it was when he allowed her to say goodbye to her uncle and later saved her from him, in 1x19.
When she was struggling with saying goodbye to yet another family member, he made it easier for her expecting nothing in return. He prevented her from doing something she might regret, gave her one last chance to say farewell and was by her side all along, understanding and comforting her when she needed it the most. And then suddenly, when she asked him to stay a little longer, it hit her. His support meant something more to her than a friend’s. It felt good to have him there because there was a connection between them that made some of the pain go away. Was she ready to admit it just yet? No, she wasn’t, and that’s why ultimately she wanted Marcel to be the one by her side. But she knew then something had changed inside her. Klaus Mikaelson had shaken her world and she couldn’t shake him.