AN: AU/AH: Elijah comes home to see his family working as dysfunctionally as it usually does. (Carolijah and Klaus)
Elijah leans against the doorframe and watches as they paint. His brother and his wife are arguing again as he finishes his painting. "That monkey has pervert eyes," she points out, glaring at the odd creature painted on the wall. "They're not done yet, that's why," Klaus sighs, scratching his head and getting blue paint in his curls. "Is that a wolf? Wolves don't live in the jungle, Nik!" She exclaims, rubbing her swollen stomach. "Caroline, I've never hit a woman before, let a lone a pregnant one, but you're testing my patience," Klaus growls out, earning a wet paint roller to the back of the head. "Don't be an ass, Nik!" She snarls before using her paintbrush to add in details.
He smirks as Klaus grumbles and gets to work on the monkey's eyes to make them look less perverted. "You should be grateful, Nik," she tells him, tongue sticking out of the corner of her mouth as she concentrates. "I mean, I am giving you a niece and a nephew. I also sorted out your relationship with Camille - your welcome, by the way - and I got Elijah to loosen up and become social enough to lurk in open doorways rather than the shadows of an empty room."
Klaus turns around to see Elijah smirking at his wife from the doorway. "Should you be painting?" Elijah asks, walking over and wrapping his arms around her from behind. "It isn't making me ill and we've only just started," she mumbles sheepishly, pursing her lips as he kisses behind her ear and rubs her swollen stomach. "We have to get it done now before they pop out," she reminds him, turning and kissing his lips.
"So, brother, are you going to help or are you going to distract Caroline?" Klaus asks, raising his eyebrows teasingly at his older brother. "You should shut up and get on with the work," Elijah reorts, turning to look at his younger brother, "I heard you threaten my wife. You need to make up for that." Klaus grumbles and gets back to work on painting the nursery wall. Elijah steps back and pulls off his suit jacket and tie, rolling up his sleeves and undoing his collar.
The three of them paint until the sky turns red with the setting sun. "Finished," Klaus breathes, rocking back off his heels to sit and appreciate his lions. "Just in time," Caroline comments, "Because my water just broke." The Mikaelson brothers shoot up and she chuckles as they rush her to the hospital. Four hours and a lot of agony later and Arielle Elizabeth Mikaelson and William Nikolai Mikaelson are born healthy and happy.
Thankfully, when they get home Kol and Klaus have furnished the nursery and the monkey's eyes aren't creepy anymore and the wolf is actually a lion. Aren't jungle bedrooms the best?