Wanting Something
After being on the run for a thousand years you are careful what you wish for. Who you get attached to. If you started to care it would only make you weak, to survive you had to leave a lot behind. Even now that Mikael is defeated and they are free, he still can't stop being so cautious. The lines he had to set himself to survive are still all there, it's in his blood, in his bones.
If you care - you are weak. He has lived by this rule for a millenium. And now he's just suppossed to forget about it?
The more people he cared about, the more people he had to protect, the more he had to lose. It was only unnecessary baggage. His younger sister didn't understand it, she kept falling in love with fools who would only slow them down, attract attention and finally lead Mikael to them. She didn't need these lovers, she had her family, why wasn't that enough for her? He loves her more than they ever could. They couldn't protect her, they didn't when she needed it before.
It wasn't the men she fell in love with, it was the idea of being a normal girl in love with a man. Rebekah didn't even know them, but she needed their affection. Needed proof that she was wanted and loved. Klaus never told her. With every time he daggered her, hurt her and made her more unhappy, her doubts grew. Whether he wants her just because he always did and just was used to it, if he still loved her how he used to.
Rebekah only heard him say it once in decades. Klaus was arguing with Marcel, when he for the first time for so long said it out load. She didn't knew if Klaus was aware that she was near, hearing every word they said, but she didn't care because he still loves her. Rebekah could feel a tear streaming down her face, she felt like she was starving for this proof. So many man had told her, but it never meant as much to her as when Niklaus told Marcel. This feeling, this was what she was craving, with every new man she meet she hoped they could give it to her, but they never could, only Niklaus.
Klaus has always been so careful not to love anyone, forever claimed that love was only for the foolish people. Those who are willing to get hurt and disappointed.
Rebekah and her brother Elijah were the only people Klaus found worth getting hurt by. He never allowed this privilege to anyone else.
And now suddenly Rebekah stands in front of him begging him to care, to want something. To give this privilege to an unborn child. To risk being hurt, if this child is hurt.
„It's okay to want something." she told him.
But did he want that? Another person who he could lose, who he'd have to protect? Was it worth it?
Mikael was dead and with him one person less in the world who would want to hurt this child, even if it just meant that he could hurt Klaus with it. He was gone.
Klaus sat down, he was so tired. He was tired of the fighting, the anger, the look in his siblings eyes when he disappointed them. He was the one who made sure Mikael could never again hurt someone he loved.
And with that Klaus allowed himself to risk it.