They got to his house and she stopped a little ways down the road, gaping at the place. Klaus grinned as she stared.
"This is your house?" She asked in disbelief
"It has been since I came here, this place has a lot of history." Klaus replied. Caroline grinned at the recollection of his words to her before as they started walking again and Klaus opened the door for her. She took in all the detail inside the house as well and heard the door's click as it closed, then turned around to look at him.
"Where's your sister?" She asked.
"This way" Klaus replied, leading her through the parlour to see a blonde woman with short hair sharpening a witch instrument. She looked up at Caroline and to her brother.
"Who is this?" She asked.
"I'm Caroline." Caroline replied. "I need your and Klaus's help with something, going on in my life." She said, coming toward her. She watched Freya glance at Klaus in assurance, then looked back to her. Klaus watched Caroline move forward and Freya gave her a sympathetic smile.
"Very well, Caroline." Freya reached for her hand and Caroline gave it to her. Soon they heard footsteps and Elijah appeared in the doorway. Klaus turned to him and gave a smile. Elijah looked at his brother with curiosity and stepped into the room.
"Why is Miss Forbes here, Niklaus?" Elijah asked.
"She needs my help with a little something growing in her body. Freya is currently figuring out what it is, if it is in fact anything at all."
Caroline turned her head to Klaus, her hand still in Freya's.
"You think that I'm possibly not pregnant?" Caroline asked dubiously.
"When witches get angry with others, there's no telling what they'd do or make them believe." Klaus replied, ignoring Elijah's face as he let the words sink in.
"Is Miss Forbes carrying your child?" He asked.
"Why is everyone asking that?" Caroline asked. Klaus stared back at her and soon another pair of footsteps came. Hayley appeared in the doorway. Caroline stared at her, and she at Caroline. She looked at Klaus, who pleaded with his eyes not to ask quite yet.
A flash came from a small pool of blood Freya had taken from Caroline and she chanted, her eyes closed, her head raising. Caroline looked at her blood with as much calm as she would be able to have, and then Freya moved her hand slightly.
"It is true, Caroline. You are indeed pregnant."
"With Klaus's child?" Hayley asked. Caroline rolled her eyes in annoyance and wished people would stop asking.
"No. There is a long story that accompanies this pregnancy. But I'm sure miss Forbes would have to fill in the minute details." Freya replied. Caroline looked at her.
"You found that out?" She asked. Freya looked back at her, and Caroline saw her trying to read Caroline's face again. Was she trying to see how she felt about this, now that she knew the details?
"What do you know?" Klaus asked immediately, getting closer to Caroline.
"Caroline is indeed pregnant, Nik. But it is not her child." Freya replied. Caroline looked at Klaus and he looked at the both of them in confusion and looked both frightened and angry.
"She did a spell to find out where Alaric's kids were, after she learned what Jo's family did with the chant." Caroline explained. They were all in a small room, Elijah and Hayley standing in the doorway, Klaus sitting across from her. Freya sitting in the corner behind Klaus.
"And that's when you learned the former vampire killer's twins were in your body?" Klaus asked. Caroline gave him a weird look.
"Yeah." She replied.
"Well, I hardly blame you for wanting to know if this was some sort of trick." Elijah said, switching his stance in the doorway.
"Witches have been known to be seriously, annoying and dangerous to this family." Hayley added in agreement. Caroline looked at her.
"Sorry, but why are you here?" She asked. She knew this wasn't her house, but Klaus was obviously in control of everyone here. And he gave her permission to be in this house, despite the bartender. Hayley stared at her, and Caroline could see she was wondering if Caroline would think less of her or not. Klaus got out of his chair.
"I believe the rest of this story can wait, until I have the opportunity to answer some questions." He replied, looking at Caroline from her seat. He offered her a hand and she took it, finding it hard to get up out of the chair now. Elijah and Hayley let Klaus and Caroline go through the doorway, then looked at Freya.
"What is going on?" Hayley asked. Freya stared at them in determination.
Caroline and Klaus walked up the stairs to the second floor, and went into his art room.
She went along the length of the room, looking at the view of New Orleans, the paintings that he'd made over the years. Or maybe they'd only been done during the past week. She looked at them and flipped through, to see a portrait of that same, bartender staring off into a distance. She immediately hated how beautiful the portrait was.
"What is going on, Klaus?" Caroline demanded. Klaus switched his stance.
"I kept my promise, Caroline, to you. But having let you go until you came to my door, I was content to just wait for you. Until Camille appeared."
"Oh, that's her name?" Caroline snapped. "Tell me, have you had sex with her in a nearby forest lately?"
"That's not fair, love."
"How is it not fair? You promised to be my last love, Klaus. And from what I saw, she would like nothing more than to replace me. Or have you not even told her about me?"
"Camille was a tool to spy on my enemies when I first met her. Then we became friends." Klaus looked away and took a few steps to the right. "If I had met her before you, she would've believed my intentions for her were pure. She would've believed in me." Caroline stared at him incredulously.
"So you wish you held onto that promise for a little longer until you came here, to do what exactly? Why did you come here?" She asked, finally feeling relief in some manner. Then she realized she'd wanted to know ever since he told her he was leaving.
"It is exceedingly complicated."
"So is everything else around here, apparently." Caroline cried. Klaus watched as her face went from frustrated and angry to hardly being able to stop the tears. He walked to her and put his hands on her shoulders.
"Hey." He coaxed, and she picked her head up to meet his eyes. "I will tell you anything you want to know." He promised. She nodded and sniffed.
"I guess vampires do get pregnancy hormones." She noted, making him chuckle slightly. They sat down and Klaus looked at her expectantly. With her legs crossed, she had her hands between her legs and stared back at him.
"Okay, um…" She began, trying to figure out which question she wanted answered first. She looked back up at him. "Why did you come here?"
"It was to look into a threat to my reign here. I learned about some old friends and new friends, enemies, their secrets that pertained to me. And I learned that Hayley was the one who was being used to threaten me."
"How? She betrayed Tyler, but after that I didn't hear anything about her." Caroline replied. Klaus held her eyes.
"When she betrayed Tyler, she also got into a little trouble unrelated to the lad. I rescued her and kept her in my home, then came the time that she would be able to leave, she was safe. But instead of leaving, we um…spent the night together." He replied. Caroline's eyes widened.
"Are you freaking kidding me?" She asked. Klaus chuckled and waited for another rant.
"What's so funny?" She asked. Klaus looked at her.
"Despite what you might be thinking, Hayley is not after my affections as Camille is." Klaus replied. Caroline relaxed slightly. "In fact, she is caught in a bit of a love triangle with my brother, and a long-lost werewolf she had been betrothed to since birth." He explained. Caroline blinked and grinned.
"I'm not sure if you're so complicated anymore." She said, to which Klaus laughed.
"Alright, so...what happened after you and Hayley spent the night together?" Caroline asked.
"Then the threat came into existence, although now, I guard that threat with my life." Klaus replied. "Hayley became pregnant with my child. She gave birth to a daughter, and I named her Hope."
For a minute Caroline just stared at Klaus, processing the information, and knowing that Klaus was waiting on her reply. That explained why everyone had asked, at least. Then she looked away, took a breath, and looked back at him, Klaus caught his breath.
"Where is she?" She asked. Klaus smirked but looked away
"Unfortunately the only way for you to meet my daughter currently is being invited into Hayley's husband's house." He replied. Caroline looked confused and showed her sympathy for him, as it looked hard to say. "Hayley wanted it to be so." He added.
"Why?" Caroline asked. Klaus sighed and got on his knees, then sat on his legs. He began to recount what he had done to Hayley and Jackson. She wanted to know why he did it, he explained about Dahlia and the hidden secret his mother had kept from him and his siblings since before he was born. Caroline's questions went on, and Klaus provided all the answers without leaving anything out. He'd sworn to himself a long while ago, before Damon had informed him of Katarina's health taking a turn for the worse, that he would be honest with Caroline. It was her he would keep in every loop there was, even if Elijah or Rebekah didn't know.
And Camille...Camille could wait until another time.
Caroline stretched her legs out to the side and propped herself up on her hands, leaning back slightly and showing Klaus the medium-sized baby bump she now had. Klaus couldn't help but stare for a minute. Then his eyes met with Caroline's again.
"Sorry. I found out I have to switch positions to get comfortable a lot now." She said. He held her eyes.
"I believe you said these children are your former teacher's and his fiancés?" Klaus asked.
"Yeah, why"
"And so when the twins are born, they have different parents than they did before." Klaus prompted. Caroline stared pointedly at him.
"Whatever you have to say, say it." She replied.
"Do you want to keep these children, Caroline" Klaus replied. She looked at him like he was crazy.
"If I wanted to keep them I would've stayed in Mystic Falls." Caroline said. Klaus stared at her.
"And so what is it you would like me and my sister to do?" He asked. Caroline took another breath and leaned in. Klaus's eyes wavered slightly, not knowing what she was doing.
"I want you to, find a way to speed up the pregnancy." She said, using her hands. Klaus looked down.
"Very well. I'll ask Freya what she can do. I'm sure there's something in the witch arsenal that could do what you need." He replied. Caroline smiled at him and he got up off the floor, her eyes following him. He looked down at her and offered a hand. She looked at him and begrudgingly took it, finding his hybrid strength made getting up easier, even though she had to push off the ground and stand up awkwardly before getting herself straight and looking at him. Klaus watched her.
"What will you do after the twins are born?" He asked. Caroline held his eyes.
"We can talk about that later." She replied.
