Hey.
So yeah, this chapter is a long one too.
We've got a wedding, a hospital visit and secrets revealed!
Enjoy!
The day had finally arrived, Bill Forbes was to marry Esther Mikaelson.
Caroline and Rebekah had been busy arranging all the last minute minor details that would make their day romantic.
Caroline was sure that the day would run smoothly because she always had a plan and time slot for everything.
She had no time to get her hair done by the hair dresser so she opted to have her naturally loose curls, almost similar to those of her mom's when she was a young woman, She wore her beautiful blue dress that Esther had chosen for all the girls for their bridesmaid dresses.
"It's time" Rebekah announced as she came into the room where everybody had dressed.
Caroline looked at Esther, who wore a simple yet elegant ivory dress with a blue sash that matched their dresses
"Are you ready Mom?" Freya questioned preparing herself to walk before her mother and beside her sister.
"I'm ready, Finn?" Finn came into view offering his mother his elbow as he lead her towards Caroline's father and Enzo.
Caroline thought everything was perfect, not a single thing could go wrong.
Her eyes caught Klaus' as he smirked at her, She knew what he was hinting at, they'd been having sex none stop since the day in the rest room, they would find secluded places that nobody would think of looking for either of them.
She loved the idea of sneaking around but she was also scared of being caught and her father hating them for what they were doing.
Caroline's mind had been so fixated on Klaus that she blocked out the whole wedding procession only to watch the happy couple share a kiss.
It was then that things went wrong, Caroline's vision went black and her body crumbled to the floor "Caroline?!" Klaus' shouting her name was the last she had heard before everything went black.
When Caroline came around she was laid down in a hospital bed with her father by her side
"Daddy? What happened?"
Bill looked up tearfully at his daughter, He was scared for her life,
scared of her being handed the same fate as her mother.
"I thought.. I thought-" Caroline reached for her father's hand
"I'm not going anywhere"
She wasn't going to leave her father alone, not like her mother had left them, even if it wasn't a fault of her own.
"I was so worried, Esther and the kids are all outside, they wanted to make sure you were ok, Especially Klaus. He was worried about you"
Caroline nodded
"I'm fine though aren't I?" Bill shrugged his shoulders
"We're waiting for the doctor to return with your bloods. I think they want to come in and see you"
Caroline looked out of the window, exhaling deeply
"Ok" She replied watching as her family piled into the hospital room.
"You gave us quite a fright" Esther said as she came towards her reaching out to touch her softy.
"Miss Forbes?" Everybody moved away from Caroline as the doctor tried entering the room.
"I've got your blood work back and it looks like we've discovered the cause of the fainting."
Caroline nodded looking towards her father
"What is it then?" She questioned the doctor.
"Would you like some privacy?" Caroline shrugged her shoulders as Bill and Esther pushed all of the children out of the room as Caroline sat looking outside
"Dad. Can you stay?" Bill looked at his daughter nodding and expecting the worse.
He reached out grabbing her hand as she received the news..
"You're pregnant" Caroline's jaw fell open, she'd been safe all except the one time with Klaus in the rest room and well that one time with Stefan
"You're wrong! I can't be" The doctor handed over the bloods shaking her head
"I'm sorry Caroline" Bill watched as the news sunk in and his daughter burst into tears.
He could have throttled her, been angry and done something but her falling pregnant wasn't the end of the world, it just meant she needed to stop the partying and think about a baby.
"Say something Daddy" Bill looked at her tear stained face and just kissed her forehead
"You're my baby girl and I don't like the fact that you're pregnant but I still love you and we'll get through this together; As a family"
Caroline nodded as she fell back into her father's arms.
"Thank you daddy" Klaus watched through the window, scared that something was wrong, that maybe she'd gotten sick.
He watched Bill walk through his face somber
"Caroline's going to stay in tonight but she's told us not to waste a good evening. So I've been given my orders to return to the reception"
Esther smiled "Are you sure, Sweetheart? I'll understand if you want to stay with her"
Bill shook his head "No. She needs some time to think, I'll come collect her in the morning"
Klaus watched Bill and Esther leave with the others all except himself and Rebekah.
"Are you going?" She questioned
"No. You go. I'm going to sit with Caroline for a bit"
Rebekah wanted to stay herself but she had a feeling Klaus and Caroline would have more to talk about so she left him alone and followed their family.
Klaus walked into the room to see Caroline sobbing into her pillow
"Hey. You okay?" Caroline simply shook her head against her pillow unable to look up.
"I'm here if you need me ok? I'm not going anywhere"
Caroline let out a deep breath as she stayed wrapped up in her own arms.
"I'm pregnant" was all she said, it put the fear of god into Klaus, He looked at her wide eyed
"Are they sure? I mean sometimes they get these things wrong" Caroline pointed to the bottom of her bed
"Look at my notes then. I just don't know what to do"
Klaus didn't touch her notes, instead he pulled his chair closer to her bed and reached his hand out gently swiping the hair from her eyes and wiping the tears that continued to spill
"We'll figure it out. We can do this" Caroline sighed
"But what if it's Stefan's baby? How will you be able to look at me the same"
Klaus hushed her "This baby could be Matt Donovan's or Tyler Lockwood's and it still wouldn't change how I feel about you Sweetheart. I love you Caroline and nothing in this world could possibly change that."
Caroline smiled though the tears, he loved her and he was declaring it.
He wanted her to know because he wanted her to admit to him that she loved him too.
She held his hand in her own kissing it softly
"I love you too. I've never felt the way I do when I'm with you or even thinking about you."
Klaus grinned "I knew you loved me" Caroline chuckled lightly, she really did.
She loved him more than she thought possible because this man was perfect to her.
Bill and Esther wanted to talk to Caroline alone about the situation, they wanted her to know that they cared for her
"You need to tell Stefan sweetheart" Esther suggested.
Caroline could do nothing but shake her head
"Why not?" Bill questioned.
"Has he hurt you? Is this why you broke up with him?"
"No Dad. Stefan has never hurt me but I don't know if the baby is Stefan's"
Bill almost went as white as a sheep
"Then who else is there?" Caroline looked at Esther and noticed Klaus shared her eyes and her nose and wondered if her own child would share those features.
"Some guy I met the night of the bonfire" Bill was in shock
"Some guy? Do you even know who he is?" Caroline shook her head
"No Daddy. I'm sorry" Bill stood from his chair walking out of the room slamming the door behind him.
"I'll speak to your father. Just go sort out your homework" Caroline nodded as she watched Esther follow after her father.
When she'd finished her home work she was greeted by Klaus who now just walked into her room without a care, He looked hurt and angry.
"You told them it was some guy? I thought you wanted them to know the truth?" Caroline looked up at him
"My dad would kill you and I don't want your mom having to choose between you or my father. This is my mistake, I have too be burdened with it but my dad is right, Stefan does need to know"
Klaus sighed
"Fine. Do you need me to come with you?" Caroline shook her head
"I'll be alright." She reached over kissing him softly against his lips before grabbing her keys and running out of the door.
Caroline stood on his living room, She watched Damon's eyes never shifting from her
"So you want him back now? You bored?" Caroline hated the way he spoke to her, like it was her fault that his mother left them alone.
"No. I just need to speak to him" Caroline heard the giggling before she saw his face.
She didn't know how to feel, Jealous? Happy or Sad.
Stefan came into view with Katherine following closely behind him "Care? What're you doing here?" He looked at her confused.
"I think we need to talk Alone." This time Stefan didn't brush her off, he listened
"I'll call you later kat." Katherine nodded but glared at Caroline as she walked away.
"I'll give you ten minutes" Damon said as he walked out of the room grabbing the bottle of bourbon of the shelve.
"Whats wrong? Are you okay? I heard you were in hospital"
Caroline nodded
"That's actually why we need to talk. I'm pregnant"
Stefan fell back in his seat in shock, He thought they'd been careful.
"I don't know what to say" He said.
He was nervous and Caroline could see it, the blood draining from his face
"There's something else"
Stefan looked worried, more? Was it twins or something he didn't know how to even hold a baby.
"I slept with somebody else after we split up so I don't know if the baby could be there's"
Stefan's relief was short lived when he thought about it, was she playing around behind his back.
"How many times?" It was Caroline's turn to be confused
"What?" Stefan rolled his eyes
"How many time while we were together did you sleep with him?"
Caroline shook her head fiercely
"I didn't! I stayed loyal to you but after we split I slept with him" Stefan nodded
"Yeah well let me know about everything and whatever else"
Caroline was taken aback by his sudden harsh demeanor
"Stefan-" He cut her off
"Don't Caroline. Why come and tell me something like that if you don't even know if the baby is mine?"
Caroline shrugged her shoulders
"I thought you should know" Damon entered the room at the word baby
"You're pregnant?" Caroline nodded
"She doesn't know who the father is" Stefan snapped back.
Damon looked at his little brother, knowing that she'd upset him
"I think you should go" He suggested to Caroline, which she happily obliged.
The weeks leading to her first ultrasound passed quickly, she concealed her pregnancy from all of her friends and from the rest of school all except those who knew, she had even kept it from Elena and Bonnie and they were her best friends.
Caroline hummed nervously as she sat in the waiting room to see the sonographer, she watched all the other expectant moms with their partners holding hands or just smiling lovingly at each other while she sat alone.
She had told her Dad and Esther that she would be fine on her own,
that she didn't need anybody with her but secretly she was scared, she wished she had her mom to sit with her, to tell her it was all going to be okay but she had nothing.
The nurse came into view smiling "Miss Forbes?"
Caroline rose from her seat just as the main door opened
"Caroline" She looked stunned as her two best friends looked at her sadly.
"How?" they waved her off
"Come on, Lets go and get you checked and we'll talk all about it after" Bonnie suggested following Caroline as she followed the nurse.
She could finally talk to somebody besides Klaus.
Running the Doppler across her stomach a grey grainy image appeared on screen, a thudding heart and a wiggly body
"Here are the hands and those are the feet"
The sonographer pointed at the screen to show her not that Caroline couldn't make it out herself.
"From my measurements I'd say you're around fifteen weeks which would make the baby due in April."
The wheels were turning as she calculated the dates in her head, The baby was his.
It was Stefan's and a part of her suddenly felt relieve.
She left with the ultrasound photos and her best friends to go and have something to eat.
"Why didn't you tell us?" Elena asked curiously s they tucked into their food.
"I was scared, I didn't know if the baby was even Stefan's" Both girls shared a look before turning back to Caroline
"Who's could it have been?" Caroline looked down at her food
"You gotta promise not to say anything" Both girls nodded in unison
"I've been seeing Klaus. Only since end of Summer but we've been hooking up"
Both girls gasped and began flapping their arms around excitedly
"Oh my god. You've been sleeping with your brother"
Elena went on laughing earning glares from the other patrons.
"Step Brother Elena, we aren't blood related."
Bonnie shook her head "What was he like? Was he good?"
Caroline stared at her friend wide eyes
"No Bonnie. I'm not telling you." Her face grew red as they continued to torture her
"Do you love him?" Bonnie asked earning an even brighter glow from Caroline
"Yes. I do, He makes me feel things that I've never felt before"
Both girls beamed "How's he going to take the news about the baby?"
Caroline shrugged her shoulders "He knew it was a possibility and he told me he doesn't care because it won't change his feelings but I'm scared that it will, What if he realizes that I was a mistake"
Elena reached out for her hand holding tightly
"Then you will realize he didn't deserve you in the first place"
Caroline loved these girls, the two people that had been with her since she had moved to Florida and held her tightly as she cried for her mom.
Caroline sat on her bed looking at the photo in her hand, she still couldn't believe that the tiny little dot belonged to her.
"Hey, How did it go?" Caroline looked up and smiled at Klaus as he came into her bedroom locking the door behind him, He'd just got home from soccer practice, so was slightly messy
"It was ok. Thank you by the way. I was scared and you called the girls"
Klaus smiled as he sat down beside her taking her into his arms.
"I'm glad that you're okay with it, I didn't want to over step the mark but I thought they'd be great support" Caroline reached up and kissed his lips softly
"So this is it huh?" Caroline took a deep breath
"I.. They said.." Klaus nodded straight lipped as her stared down at her
"It's not mine right?" Caroline nodded as fresh tears brimmed her eyes and suddenly she felt guilty for being glad it wasn't his.
"I thought as much I just didn't want to voice my opinions. It doesn't change anything though Okay. I'm still going to be here" Caroline hugged him as hard as she could
"Thank you" She was beyond grateful that she had him.
When Caroline arrived at Stefan's house she was greeted to Stefan, Katherine, Tyler and Liv.
"Caroline? What're you doing here?" She took a deep breathe before holding up the named envelope
"I wanted to give you this and was hoping we could talk" Stefan looked between the three giving them a nod to head to the car without him
"This has to be quick, We're on a double date" Caroline snickered at the memory.
"I thought you should know that the baby is yours, The ultrasound confirmed it. I fell pregnant after our first night" Stefan was in disbelief, he didn't know what to say or how to process it
"It's ok. If you don't want to be a part of it's life then I understand"
Caroline left the envelope on the table beside her as she rushed through the door towards her car.
Stefan raced after her calling out her name
"Caroline, Wait" But she ran until she reached her car and he caught up with her.
"I want this baby as much as you, I want to be a part of it's life. Of your life"
Caroline couldn't look at him, she couldn't say anything as he stroked the loose strand of hair from her face
"We could give it another go please" Caroline looked away.
She looked towards his car and watched as they all climbed from the car.
"What's going on Stefan? I thought we were going out"
Stefan shrugged "Look go out"
Caroline went to open her door but Stefan caught her wrist
"No, We need to talk, Sort this out"
Caroline looked towards Tyler praying that he wouldn't tell Stefan what he saw that day.
She hoped he'd do the decent thing considering their father's were best friends and she'd known Tyler all her life too
"She screwed Klaus" and it wasn't Tyler's voice that she heard it was Damon.
"What?" Stefan looked to his brother then to Caroline
"Is it true?" Caroline felt the tears threaten to spill as she nodded
"Yes" she managed t get out.
"Tyler came to me the other week, Told me that he caught them going at it in one of the girls toilets"
Caroline glared at Tyler, angry that he told Damon of all people.
"Get out of my sight" was all Stefan said as he walked away back to his friends leaving her standing on their drive way shocked and scared that her father would find out.
R&R
A/N: So a few of you might not be happy with the pregnancy story line and some of you might be mad that it's Stefan's not Klaus'. I didn't want it to be Klaus' for the simple reason it would be more of a reason for Bill to hate their relationship when he learns the truth and that it wouldn't be challenging for their relationship and they'd get exactly what they want. This way she has to deal with Damon and Stefan has to deal with the fact that Klaus has Caroline and his child.
Were heading into the family finding out the truth and dealing with the back lash at school.
