Hello everyone!

So, I am still wondering how this happened - me writing about the magical mystical baby, because I personally don't like that idea and the name is just too much clichee, but it is totally okay if you like it, because otherwise you probably wouldn't read this story!;)

So, how did I get the idea?I watched a fanmade video on YouTube where Klaus gave the baby to Caroline instead of Rebekah and that was when I started to wonder: Mh, how would that story go on? (If whoever made the video is reading this then I want to let you know that you did an awsome job!)

There will be no Hayley in this story and I don't know yet how long it will be, probably 3 or 4 chapters.
It will be rather fluffy than dark. Typical family stuff, about how Klaus gets to know his daughter and advances on his feelings for Caroline.
I changed a bit of the canon of the finale of TVD (Stefan and Bonnie are dead, but Damon isn't), but that will not affect the story any further. I just mention it once.

I hope you will like this short story! (Sorry for the mistakes I made!)

Caroline laughed shifting her phone from one ear to the other.

"You really shouldn't do that!"

"Oh, love, you have no idea of how much fun you're missing."

"Oh believe me I am having enough fun in my life."

There was a chuckle and a short moment of breakable silence on the other end. It was as if Caroline predicted the question that would follow her statement. She knew him well by now.

"How is she?"

Caroline smiled into the receiver. "She's great!" And she did mean that exactly like her happy tone implied. "Wait a second!" She stood up and walked through the small kitchen into the hallway where she held the phone up into the air towards the staircase. Due to his impeccable hearing he would hear every noise, just like as if he was standing next to her.

Caroline smiled lovingly while she listened to the humming from upstairs.

"Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are mh mh mh mh…"

"Did you hear that?" She asked excited, while she walked back into the kitchen to look at their small green garden in the suburb where they were living. A cat jumped over the white picket fence and examined the colourful flowers in one of the flowerbeds.

"I did." Klaus agreed and was silent for another moment. The atmosphere was suddenly heavy. He seemed to gulp.

"And again this is why I am better with kids than you are." She joked to take the edge away from the silence that was heavy with meaning. "You could have never taught her that song!"

"Forgive me, but I have an excellent voice."

"When it comes to threats!"

"You spoil her too much! She'll be too weak to survive."

Caroline rolled her eyes at the familiar argument that he never got tired of telling her. "Oh my god, Super Nanny, she's a kid! Totally right decision to give her to me!"

She paused and smiled when Klaus simply agreed with a sigh which meant that their conversation was coming to an end. "I know."

Caroline pouted. His voice was low and warm and Caroline had started to miss him at some point. She would have loved to be able to wrap herself into his sexy British accent like she snuggled under her comfortable blanket at night. "Are you going to stop by any time soon?"

When she closed her eyes, she could imagine that he was standing right next to her and whispering into her ear, instead of being thousands of miles away.

He sighed. "As soon as I can, love."

She opened her eyes. "It's been five years." It was a bitter sweet statement.

When had she started to miss him that much? When had she started to dream about him taking her into his strong arms and never let her go again?

"I know." Another heavy sigh. "I'll call you later tonight, okay?"

"Yeah, take care."

At some point between all those frequent phone calls and a look into the sweet blue eyes of the little girl upstairs, she started to care deeply, she answered her own questions.

"Caroline." Before she could hang up Klaus called her name once more. She quickly raised the phone back to her ear. Her heart pounded and was almost afraid that he would finally say something meaningful or something caring.

"Yes?"

Since that day in the forest, she had never heard him say anything else about their future or his feelings towards her.

Nothing!

And now that Caroline felt herself getting more and more involved with him, she also felt that she cared about him more and more day by day. But she didn't know anymore what he was thinking and she was too afraid to ask.

Maybe he eventually got over her.

The silence seemed to stretch out like an eternity while she waited for his answer.

Her mouth was dry.

"Do you really miss me that much?"

Her face fell. Despite her hopes he didn't have that caring, loving tone she wanted to hear, but a smug and mocking one, as if he enjoyed fooling her and maybe he did. Maybe he didn't even realise that he did it.

Caroline scoffed and groaned. "Get over yourself!" She snapped and hung up on him, but when she looked at the phone in her hand she chuckled and a smile settled down on her lips.

These phone calls were so constant that Caroline didn't know how to live without them anymore. She put the phone onto the kitchen table where she would definitely hear it, if it rang again.

When he had called her five years ago to ask her for a huge favour, she had never thought that she could do it; that she would be able to care for a child.

She had been at a crossroads of her life back then.

Stefan had just died and Bonnie too. Elena had eloped with Damon who suffered severely from the loss of his brother and since she never wanted to see Tyler ever again, it had left her alone. So it had been fairly easy to abandon her life.

But a child! A small innocent human being! What if she screwed up?

How could Klaus have so much faith in her?

Her mother and Matt were the only people she still talked to frequently. Her mother had not been a fan of her plan, but when Klaus had begged her she couldn't say no and leave the innocent girl out in the open without any protection.

Besides it was his child.

It was his daughter.

And to top it all of, everyone knew that he was incapable of raising a child.

The beginning was horrible though!

But luckily she had gotten help from another part of the family; from the only part of the family that she had dared to ask for help. Since then everything fell into place and after a short while it felt natural to have a baby girl. It turned out that she was capable. And Klaus never failed to call to inquire after her.

And Caroline told him everything.

Sometimes they would talk for hours and Caroline would tell him every tiny detail about all the small progresses that his little girl made.

She did tell him everything.

Small feet tripped down the stairs then and she smiled at the soft sounds that carried almost inaudibly to her ear.

"Mummy!"

Well, she told him almost everything.

"What is it honey?"

A small girl with long light brown hair entered the kitchen. She scrunched up a cute snub nose.

"I am hungry."

Caroline chuckled. "Oh no!" She gasped playfully putting her hand in front of her mouth. "Then we certainly have to do something about that. What would you like to have?"

Hope tilted her head. "Can I have pasta?"

"SpagBol with a little bit of blood in the sauce?"

Her eyes lit up and her head bobbed up and down excitedly while she stepped forward and wrapped her small arms around her legs. Caroline smiled warmly and patted her head.

"Coming right up."

When she hadn't eaten as a baby Caroline had outright panicked and started to doubt her decision to be able to take care of a child. However, she couldn't abandon her, so she had pulled herself together and gone to ask for help.

It had been pouring and she had needed days to find out where she was, but she had found her eventually, thanks to Matt.

When Rebekah had found Caroline and the small crying bundle in front of her doorstep, she had been confused at first, but as soon as she had noticed that it was her brother's child, she had opened her door wide to the wet and miserable couple outside.

They had figured out together that Hope needed blood and food. Caroline had been shocked and relieved at the same time, but she should have expected that Hope was not normal. She was in fact an extraordinary child.

She grew like every other child and her vampire or hybrid senses or whatever she was about to become only developed slowly day by day. Her strength, her hearing and her speed; and her wounds wouldn't heal immediately.

Once she had come home with a cut on her knee, it hadn't looked bad at all, it had just been a small cut, but it didn't heal immediately.

On the contrary.

It got worse first. It started to infect itself and yellow pus seeped out of it. Hope had been crying so much and Caroline had tried everything she could. But then over the night, it had suddenly simply healed up completely. However, Caroline had never been more worried about her.

She actually had been worried from the first moment on when Hope had called her 'mummy'. Hope had looked at her out of her huge puppy dog eyes and Caroline couldn't tell her that she wasn't her mummy.

And even Rebekah had agreed with her.

Hope should grow up as normal as possible.

And together Caroline and Rebekah made sure that she did.

Hope was all excited about finally being allowed to go to school. She was smart and she knew that she was different than the other kids; that she was different than her best friend Flo who was living next door and that she couldn't tell anyone.

Five years later

"Hello? Anyone home?"

"Kitchen!" Caroline answered unnecessarily because Rebekah knew exactly where to find her. She just wanted to loudly make her presence known.

She smiled when she entered the kitchen. "Hey C."

"Hey, you okay?"

Before Rebekah could answer, two little pair of feet scurried over the floor upstairs. Her niece came running downstairs and into the kitchen. She didn't really have vampire speed yet, but it was obvious that she was getting faster every day. "Aunti Bekah!"

The small girl jumped into her open arms.

"Oh my, you're getting too big for this! How are you?"

"Great!" Hope smiled and licked her lips biting them. She stared at Rebekah with wide eyes and swayed from side to side. "Did you bring me something?" She asked in that super sweet tone, refering to the promise Rebekah had given her.

Rebekah grinned and rummaged through her bag. "Mh, did I…Oh I think I forgot!"

Hope stomped her foot angrily. "Aunt Bekah! You promised!" She crossed her arms and pouted sadly.

Rebekah grinned and winked. "I know." Then she pulled a package of crayons out of her purse and Hope squealed grabbing the colours. "Awsome! Thank you!"

She raced out of the kitchen and up to her room.

The two women smiled and chuckled after her stormy exit.

"It's amazing how much she loves to paint." Rebekah said.

"I know."

"It's a bit weird though, isn't it?"

Caroline laughed. "I am glad that she has inherited the good traits."

Rebekah chuckled. "True."

"Last week I took a picture from her and send it to him." Caroline explained, carefully checking that Hope wouldn't hear her.

"I never thought that he could care so much!" Rebekah shook her head. She had never believed that she would ever see that side of her big brother ever again. It gave her hope that maybe one day he would forgive her eventually.

"I know. I almost think that he has changed. I have a totally different picture of him, now that he isn't threatening anyone of my friends anymore and I don't have to watch him kill anyone. He was so desperate when he asked for my help and he still calls every day!"

"Careful Caroline, you are drowning in the deep end of the pool!"

Caroline blushed slightly, but she knew that she couldn't hide it from Rebekah who had secretly always believed that Nik and Caroline would happen someday.

"You still aren't talking, are you?" Caroline asked instead of admitting to anything.

Rebekah shook her head and a sad look crossed her eyes. "No."

"How's Matt?" Caroline changed the subject.

Rebekah's lips rose into a smile. "Great. I am so much more aware having him around, you know, because he is human."

Caroline poured them both a cup of tea while she kept on talking to Rebekah like the good friend she had become. "Did you talk about turning him?"

"We did, but you know…it's difficult."

Caroline smiled. She knew that Matt wanted to be with Rebekah, but he was also afraid of dying and letting go of his human life.

"I am glad that you are raising her." Rebekah said suddenly out of the context.

Caroline sat down in front of her and smiled. "Thanks for your support. I really couldn't do it without you."

Rebekah smiled genuinely and only a second later Hope appeared again. "They are awesome!" She threw herself at her aunt again. "Thank you so much!"

Rebekah laughed almost toppling over. "You're welcome!"

"Did you know that I am the best in my art class?" Hope told her excitedly.

"No!?" Rebekah answered with a bright grin.

"Yes!" Hope replied excitedly. "And Savannah is so jealous!"

"Is she?"

"Yes." And then Hope started rambling about Savannah, who she didn't like at all. Rebekah and Caroline listened attentively and occasionally made a remark. They both adored her and wondered how one couldn't.

Finally Hope asked. "Where is Uncle Matt?"

Rebekah smiled. "You do like him, don't you?"

She nodded. "He's cool!"

Suddenly there was a knock at the back door that led straight to the kitchen.

"It's open." Caroline called.

A dark haired boy stuck his head through the door. "Hi Mrs Forbes."

"Hello Flo. How are you?"

"Fine, M'am. Hope, wanna come out and play ball?"

"Sure." She jumped off the chair and raced for the door, before she was gone, however, she called: "By the way mum, you need to go see Mrs Clark! See you later!"

"What? Hope! We gonna talk about that later young lady!" Caroline replied loudly.

Rebekah started to laugh out loud. "This mother role is so your thing!"

"Flo calls me M'am!" Caroline explained. "Do I look like a M'am? I have to go to teachers and meet up with other parents and I never got how hard it was to be a single mum! My mother was rarely there and I just realise how hard it is to have the responsibility all alone." She sighed.

"You're doing a perfect job! And you have me and Matt!"

"I know." Caroline nodded, but looked seriously at Rebekah then. "She asked me about her dad."

Rebekah's eyes widened. "What did you tell her?"

"I didn't know what to tell her! I told her that he loves her and that he has important things to do and cannot see her, but that she will understand everything when she is old enough."

"Do you think that was clever?"

"What should I have told her? I certainly couldn't tell her that he died or that he is a serial killer, let alone murderous Hybrid King of New Orleans! She asked me if Matt could be her dad!"

Rebekah sighed and took her hand. "It'll be fine!"

"Klaus will kill me if he finds out that I let her go to school."

"Thank god that you do! She is growing up like a normal kid and she needs a healthy social environment meaning; she needs to interact with kids in her age. She needs to be able to relate to them and feel like everyone else!"

"Did you read those parents' guidebooks again?"

"Did you know that it is very important for them to have a rebel phase?"

Caroline laughed.

So, I would like to know what you think.=)

Thanks for reading!