Hello My Lovelies.
I hope you enjoy this one :)
He looked into the crib before him, his index finger touching the tiny hand of the baby girl that lay peacefully before him.
She was his, hers, theirs and she was beautiful just like her mother.
"Nobody is better off without their parents" She said through the tears that fell from her eyes.
He knew that, he didn't want to do this but it was the only way to protect her.
"I'm sorry love. It's the only way" Caroline looked at their tiny daughter, barely a day old and already had the world chasing her.
"I can't loose her" She sobbed, Klaus rushed to her side.
He held her within his arms tightly "You aren't loosing her sweetheart, she's just going away for a while" Caroline shook her head against his shoulder
"Why does it feel like forever" Klaus knew how she felt because he felt it within his own heart too.
She held her daughter tightly within her arms, wishing that she wouldn't have to hand her over to somebody else, another family.
She wanted her to grow with them to be cuddled by her mother, learn to paint with her father and learn to read with her Uncle Elijah.
"You ready love?" Caroline shook her head as the tears rolled faster, He stepped closer to take their child, laying a sweet kiss in her head.
Caroline followed his action, pressing her lips firmly to her forehead as she whispered softly "Mommy Loves you Hope"
Klaus smiled at her words, at their daughters name.
They hadn't discussed it, they thought they'd have more time but here they were prematurely giving her away.
He rested her sleeping body into the car seat prepared and ready for his drive to the meeting point only he knew about.
"Keep her safe and give her this" Caroline said as she handed her own Mr tatted teddy bear to Klaus for their daughter.
"I will love. I promise" Caroline knew he would keep it, One thing she knew about him was his promises were never false.
He promised to stay away and he did, he never returned to Mystic falls not even when she learned of the mystical baby growing within her body, She ended up dragging Stefan to New Orleans with her to tell Klaus not realizing that it would be the worst mistake she ever made.
Caroline stood in her best friends embrace as Klaus drove away with their daughter, with her Hope.
Elijah dabbed the tears that fell from his own eyes as he watched the car drive away "I'm going to my study" He stated walking away from them.
"I hope she's happy" Caroline sighed. Stefan knew where she was going, He had suggested it, told Klaus that handing her to Rebekah was probably his safest option, but sending her to Bonnie was even safer. A cloaking spell would be placed over them to hide them in plain sight.
When Klaus stopped he could see the little red car almost like Stefan's taking up the whole road, her way of preventing unwanted passerby's.
"Hello Sister" He whispered as he held his daughter within his embrace taking her to his baby sister.
"She's beautiful. Just like her mother" He couldn't help but feel the joy in that moment, his heart swelled and his mind flashed back to her birth, to the moment his daughter entered his life, thawing his frozen heart just like her mother.
"She's got the hint of the devil too. That's all me" Rebekah smiled, Hope had hints of both her parent's, she would grow up to be a beautiful child.
"Find Bonnie Bennett. She will place a cloaking spell on you. Mystic falls is the safest place for her right now. Take her home and we will come for her when it is safe"
Rebekah nodded
as much as she had no plans to return to Mystic Falls she knew that every supernatural being in the small town would lay their own lives on the line for the little girl her brother held in his hands.
"You will return to me" he whispered softly as he laid his lips against her forehead.
He reluctantly handed his daughter to his sister, the only person other that he knew could look after her, take care of her when he and Caroline couldn't.
"Be Happy" he said as he pressed his lips firmly to his baby sisters forehead.
When he arrived he was greeted by Stefan "Did she get off safely?"
Klaus nodded "Very well. How is Caroline?"
Stefan shrugged his shoulders
"Once you left she took off somewhere in the house"
Klaus nodded clamping his hand on Stefan's shoulder, one of his dearest friends
"Thank you for being here for her, I know it means a lot to her because it means a lot to me" Stefan nodded offering a small smile.
Klaus took off in search of her, he could here the sobbing, the tears that shattered his heart as he heard everyone fall from her eyes onto the cloth in her hands.
"There you are" He found her beside Hope's cot, seated in the rocking chair holding the piece of clothing their daughter wore after her birth to her chest
"Was she ok? Did she cry? Did they hold her right?" Klaus smiled and nodded
"She was sleeping like a baby, She didn't even know what was happening. We will get her back sweetheart"
Caroline merely nodded her eyes following the shining light that glistened from the quater.
"What if we can't fight back? What if they defeat us, it will be for nothing"
Klaus rushed to her crouching before her lifting her chin to look at him
"We will fight with every breath in our bodies. Our daughter will know that we fought for her" Caroline nodded
as she flung her arms around his neck resting her head on his shoulder, fresh tears spilling on his shirt
"How do I go on? How do tell people my daughter is dead?" Klaus didn't know he just knew it was their only option.
He waited for sleep to envelope Caroline before he left her peacefully resting to have a moment to himself, to mourn his fatherhood.
He leaned against the balcony looking out over the city, His thoughts to himself as the tears fell silently down his cheeks.
The clinking of heels on the floor disturbed his thoughts, he knew it wouldn't be long until she followed "I'm so sorry" she whispered as she came close to him resting an unwanted hand on his shoulder.
"I am here, If you need to talk" He turned to face her, his blue eyes looking at the tears that fell down her cheeks.
Why was she crying he couldn't understand, for him? For Caroline? For their daughter? She barely knew Caroline, she had met her all of once when she showed up in his home when Caroline first arrived.
She hadn't spoken to her, she questioned him about pregnancy in vampires and then asked if it was what he wanted.
He would have snapped her neck then if it wasn't for the melodic laughter that erupted from Caroline's throat in a room further down the house.
He told Camille that the child was his chance at a family of his own.
"I am fine Camille, I do not need your pity, I am a vampire, we are resilient"
Cami knew he was wrong, she could tell by the shade of red beneath his eyes.
"I just want to help, be there for you" Klaus inwardly laughed at the thought.
He didn't need her, he needed the woman in the room down the hall to fight for their daughter, to let all of her love give her the strength to help him bring their daughter home.
"Klaus?" Her voice sounded scared, she'd had a bad dream, he could tell, he'd heard them before, after her father died.
The night he sat watching over her as she sobbed for a man that took a long time accepting her for what she had become.
Caroline found him, his eyes searching hers, the tears streaming down her cheeks "Bad dream love" She merely nodded before he crashed into her holding her tightly within his arms.
"Good evening Camille" He said as he quickly turned back to Cami, who stood watching their loving interaction.
Her face fell as she left the room she had occupied and ran tearfully from the house.
Once again rejected by him.
Klaus didn't care for her affections, his attention was solely fixed on the blonde clinging to his waist.
"Please, Don't leave me" she pleaded through the tears.
"Never, Love" he whispered as he pressed his lips to hers.
When morning came so did the questions, the werewolves and the vampires of the city had arrived in the compound, Klaus had called a meeting a way to explain in one what had happened to his young daughter.
Caroline stood beside him, hand clenched within his as they stood looking over the fools that had been the cause of their daughters 'death'
"As you may know last night Caroline gave birth to our daughter. She died during the birth due to complications that had been caused by the attack on our home."
Gasps were sounded between some groups, the ones that had yet to learn the truth of what had happened the night before.
He wanted them to know that their refusal to get on caused the witches to infiltrate their home.
"We want whoever helped these witches gain entry to our home dead. No second chances. We allowed you into our home and because of that mistake we have lost our daughter"
his words burned in Caroline's chest, he was right.
Them being in their home and turning against them had lost them their daughter.
"Klaus is right. The traitors need to be brought out and slaughtered. A child died because of our petty fighting"
Marcel spoke up as he stood on the table closest to him.
"The witches will die for what they have done" He added, his head looking towards his mentor earning a encouraging nod.
"Must we always end violence with violence Niklaus?" Elijah questioned from beside his brother.
"Have you forgotten they have taken our Hope from us, Do they not deserve to be punished Brother?" Klaus added.
He would watch them all perish if it meant it was his only way to know he could bring their daughter home.
Caroline sat in the darkness of the compound, Klaus had closed the doors to any of the communities that hoped to gain access to their home.
Klaus found himself painting the walls of the compound, he wanted to brighten it up, for her.
The light within her heart and eyes had snubbed out and he wanted it back.
She was no longer the bubbly, sparkling light he had once pined for, now she was broken.
He had broken her.
"What do you think love?" She looked up expressionless
"It's lovely" she barely whispered before turning her head back to the full glass of bourbon that sat untouched on the table in front of her. He hated what he was doing to her, what losing their daughter had done to her.
"Go Home love. Go be with your friends" It killed him, the thought of losing her too.
Caroline shook her head "I don't want my friends, I want my daughter" She swiped the glass across the table sending it crashing to the floor.
She wouldn't let him make her forget, make her return to a home that was no longer hers.
The nursery unoccupied up the stairs was her only memory of their daughter.
"It was merely a suggestion sweetheart." He flashed before her crouching down cupping her face in his yellow paint covered hands
"I want you to be happy sweetheart, to find her and be safe" Caroline's eyes widened
"You mean?" He nodded a small smile on his lips as he watched the light return as quickly as it disappeared
"If it makes you light up like this then please. Go to her, Be happy sweetheart" She allowed her heart to skip a beat at the thought of holding her daughter within her arms, to be home with her friends helping protect her but then she looked at his dark eyes, he would be alone.
"No. We're a team right? We will find her when we have made New Orleans safe for her. She was born here Klaus, this is her home" Klaus smiled at her optimism even if his had begun to fade.
The evening was the same as every night since Hope had been gone, Caroline cried, Elijah locked himself in his study and Klaus stood on the balcony.
"Klaus?" the voice broke his silence, the same person that he wished would stay out of his business, out of his home.
"Yes Camille" She looked up at him watching him as he continued to lean over the balcony.
"Are you ok? I haven't seen you in a while" Klaus sighed, was she really that dense, did she not see the closed gates to their home warning away any visitors.
"I am not in the mood for a therapy lesson" Camille was taken aback by his harsh demeanor
"I wanted to speak to you, Make sure you're ok. I haven't seen you" Klaus rolled his eyes
"He's fine. He's here with me" Caroline came out of nowhere, hands on her hips glaring at love rival.
"I just wanted to-" Caroline raised her hand cutting her off
"I know what you were doing Camille" Caroline practically spat her name out.
"I was you once. Pining for a man that wasn't mine. Wishing by god that he would notice me but he never did." Caroline made it quiet painstakingly clear that Klaus would never see Cami as more that a friend.
Cami rushed past her, tears welling in her eyes from the embarrassment that she had received from Caroline.
"Did you need to be do harsh?" Caroline looked towards him shaking her head
"Of course. Go run after her, always have been a sucker for blonde hair and blue eyes haven't you Klaus"
She spun around to leave but he was in front of her, his face filled with anger
"Don't turn your back on me" He bellowed angrily, sure that the whole city could probably hear him.
"I should have turned my back on you ages ago." She threw back, knocking the air from his chest.
She was a vicious fight and he knew that, She didn't care about riling him up because each time she knew he'd bite her or get close but he would never let her die.
"I'm leaving. I'm going home" She snapped walking away from him and he just let her slip out of his grasp because he'd lost his fight.
Marcel had seen the change in him when she left, he watched Klaus spiral, he didn't care who he hurt or what stood in his path.
Klaus wasn't Klaus without her, it was bad enough without Hope but loosing Caroline was destroying him.
He knew he needed to find her, to fix the man that had raised him many years before.
Stefan helped him, He sent him to mystic falls with the information he needed.
Stefan didn't want to leave Klaus in his current state because without Caroline he might do something stupid, like becoming the inhumane monster he was before she brightened up his life.
Mystic falls was the same boring little town it had been when she left.
She went home first, she wanted to see her mom, to wrap her arms around her and apologize for being stupid and running away.
She didn't expect it, the cooing of a little baby, the laughter that belonged to her mother and the other voice that caused it all to make sense
"Good girl Hope" Caroline rushed into the room.
Her eyes welled up as she watched the tiny baby smile at her mother and Rebekah
"She's perfect" Caroline whispered.
Rebekah heard it turning to face her, a soft smile gracing her lips
"Hello Caroline" Her mother looked at her daughter the tears in her own eyes
"She' beautiful Caroline. I am so proud of you" Caroline fell into her mothers waiting arms falling apart.
Here she was with her daughter, but she wasn't with him.
"Come on Hope, Lets see your Mommy" Rebekah plucked her niece from the floor handing her to Caroline.
The soft skin, the beautiful baby smell caused Caroline to cry a little harder, she was here within her arms again "I missed you." She whispered as she laid a soft kiss against her daughters chubby cheek.
"Klaus never said who she was with, he told me she had a new family" Caroline sobbed holding her daughter closely
"He sent me here to Bonnie, He made me hide her from anybody that came looking. He wants to keep her safe." Caroline nodded
"I know. I think that's why I am here. I think he wants me safe away from New Orleans too" Rebekah nodded because it was more than likely something Klaus would do with her.
The door bell rang announcing a visitor.
"Are you expecting somebody?" Caroline questioned her mother.
"No" Caroline looked at Rebekah who was already prepared to run with Hope.
Caroline was shocked by who stood before her.
"What are you doing here?" she questioned him.
"I have an idea but you aren't going to like it" Caroline rolled her eyes allowing him entry to her mothers home.
"Go on then." He watched as Rebekah re-entered the room earning a raised eye brow from Marcel.
"You and Hope need to come home. I think the only way to protect her is for her to be with her family, in her home"
Caroline wasn't sure and neither was Rebekah but a part of her knew it would make more sense, three original vampires, one of those a hybrid.
"He's right Caroline. We should go back"
Caroline looked between the three people in the room then her eyes landed on her daughter.
"I want her with me" Rebekah nodded as she grabbed the bag from the floor
"It was lovely spending time with you Liz." Liz smiled genuinely
"It's been wonderful getting to know my granddaughter." Caroline and Rebekah climbed into Caroline's car with Hope in the back seat.
"You ready for this? He is going to go mad" Caroline shrugged her shoulder
"I don't care. I just want my baby girl at home"
My Playlist
Open Hands - Ingrid Michaelson
Losing Your Memory - Ryan Starr
Let it go - James Bay
R&R
A/N: So i made a youtube video a while back for klaus and Caroline with hope being their daughter and klaus giving her away to rebekah. I wanted to write my own fic for it :)