Helloeveryone, I hope you like it better this version. Maybe it'll be a shorter than first version, but it will be better. I promise.
Once again, for anyone who didn't get notice, I already update first chapter so if you didn't read it, please read it so it can make sense this chapter.
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Previously…
"Caroline? Is that really you?"
In that moment she realize that her hiding space wasn't good enough. She got discovered.
She felt like the whole world has stopped. Like there's nothing else to do right now then watching how everything crumbles in the pieces. She tried to protect her daughter for so long that she never thought she'll be discovered. She thought she found a safe place to stay. But yet again, life happened.
"Hello Elijah. How are you? What are you doing here?" she tried to sweat talk with him to distract him from seeing Emily. Elijah is the smartest one in their family. He always knew how to connect dots.
"I'm good, actually very well. My reasons for coming here it's a bit embarrassing but if you have time for coffee I can explain it. But promise me you won't laugh at me. I see, I don't need to ask you how you are. I see that your dreams finally came true. Who's the lucky guy?" Elijah asks pointing on Emily in my hands.
"Oh, this is Emily, my daughter. She's a bit shy right now and sleepy too. But her father is busy so he's not really around." Caroline glares Elijah signals him to leave this topic while Emily is here. "I would love to say yes to the coffee but Emily wants to sleep. Unless you want to come at our apartment and have coffee there." Caroline offers him.
"Well, I loved to. I really want to catch up with you. Six years we haven't see each other. A lot of things has happened. Do you need a help with carrying Emily? I can take her."
"No, there's no need. She likes my smell, it calms her down when she's sleepy." Caroline says. In that moment Emily leans to her and whispers on her ear "Mommy who is this?"
"Honey, this is Elijah. He's aunties Kat husband. They are getting married soon."
"Really?" Emily says and turns to Elijah "Can I come to your wedding? I'm going to be a good girl. Auntie Kat is the best!"
Elijah chuckles before he speaks "Of course you can, you can even be a flower girl if you want." Elijah says and smiles before he looks really good at Emily.
"Caroline..." he stops a bit in a shock "How old is Emily?" Elijah looks at Caroline like he's seeing a ghost.
"She's five and half." She answers as she continues to walk down the street. They are near her apartment. This topic isn't to talk about on the street or in front of Emily. Elijah follows them but he is lost in his thoughts. He is connecting dots. Maybe he'll even finally understand why Kat came here so often, why she couldn't tell him, why Kol and Kat always looked like they have some secret bond, why she disappear all of sudden.
She got a bit tired of keeping Emily as secret but it's for the best. It's the best for Emily. Mikaelson family never brings anything good with them. Their children are good, but somehow being with them she's rarely ever got good things in her life. Except maybe Kol, he's the good one. He maybe seems like a child but he's loyal friend.
"Caroline, she's is the reason why Kat has come here so often? She never cheated me? She just couldn't tell me why?"
"Yes, but we'll talk later. Can you grab a keys from my bag and unlock front door so we can get in the lobby? Emily fell asleep and I can't really manoeuvre that good with her in my hands?"
Elijah nods and takes keys from her bag and unlocks doors. It's a good thing that elevator is in the lobby. "We are on the third floor."
They stay silent because Elijah needs to process everything and Caroline knows it's not easy after all this time. She just knew as soon as Elijah takes one good look at Emily he'll know whose Emily's father. Their resemblance is remarkable. She has his curly hair, his eyes and his smile. And by his smile she thinks of his dimples, something that only he has in their family, something that's so rarely in the world that makes him irresistible. She also has his talent for drawing. She likes to draw. Maybe she's not as talented as he is, but she'll be. Among the five years olds in her day care group. She has her drawings all around apartment. It makes it feel like home. Just like her mom had hers.
She put Emily in her bed and put her wolf next to her. She just loves that plush toy. They can't go anywhere without it. Emily loves to hug it when she's sleeping. She says for some reason it makes her calm down when Caroline isn't here. But she doesn't know that her father said once to Caroline that he feels like wolf is his animal, that wolf is his favourite animal.
So much resemblance even tho they never meet.
"Hey" Caroline says to Elijah while she's sitting on the couch "We have a lot of thing to talk about but first I need to eat, do you want to join me?"
"Yeah, sure, why not?"
"Follow me, I'm making sandwiches because I really don't want to cook right now. Emily is like me, if she smells food in the air, she'll wake up."
"Oh, I remember that. It was so funny when Rebekah didn't know that, she was so scared at first." Elijah chuckles.
"Yeah, well, what can I say, food was my first love, now is Emily." Caroline says before she starts to eat. It's really easy to make sandwich when you have everything already cut, you just need to put everything on the slice of a bread.
Elijah just let her eat in a peace because no one likes to be interrupt while eating. He lost appetite because everything he found out and he knows there are more. He just needs to wait for her to finish.
"Do you still like your coffee black with no sugar?" Caroline asks. Sometimes that surprises Elijah because she always remember little things about people.
"Yeah, yeah. I'm surprised you remember that. It's been too long to remember all the little things about people."
"But not too long if you care for them." Caroline says as she puts coffee in front of him. She contemplates whether to start talking here or sit on the couch.
"Let's sit on the couch and you can start asking me everything you want to know. We have two hours before Emily awakes and four hours before I need to get Kat at the airport."
"I want to know what happen with you since that day. Like every little thing." Elijah ask her.
She looks him in the eyes trying to decide what to do, what to say. It was bound to happen. She knew that but somehow she hopped it won't happen that soon.
"But before I start, I need you to tell me why you came here. I need you to tell me what you know so I can fill the gaps."
"Well, the real reason why I came here because I needed to know what's going on in this town that Katherine goes so often. It haunted me for almost two years. I knew there was something or someone, but I never knew what or who. I remember how she whispered with Kol few days before she went here and other way around. I guess she forgot that we share bank account and Kol forgot that his trust fund is connected with me."
He looks away. He stands up and walks to the fridge and takes one of Emily's drawings. He takes drawing on which Emily has drawn Caroline, Kol, Kat and her. Next to that drawing there's a picture of four or them somewhere with smiles on their faces.
"I asked her thousand times and Kol too, but neither of them told me. They just said they wish they can tell me but it's something beyond me, beyond our marriage that it's better for me not to know because my morals wouldn't let me keep that as a secret." He smiles to himself "Maybe she's right you know. She always knew me better. I always was a noble man."
"Yeah, that's one of reasons we decided not to tell you. You couldn't live with it. Your conscience wouldn't give you peace." Caroline says.
"I'm sorry. I really am."
She nodded at him. She knew very well what he meant when he said that he is sorry. It meant that Emily no longer can be a secret. It meant that her father will finally know about her. It meant that her game of hide and seek is over. It meant that she has to confront her ghost of past. It meant so much.
"I know you are. I know." She hugs him.
He still looks at the picture where four of them are. "Where was this taken?"
"It was taken a year ago in the park where you found us. We were having a picnic because Emily wanted that. She saw it on the TV and said that she wants to go on picnic. We had fun that day. We played catch and with frisbee. It was a good day."
"I wish I could be with you guys." Elijah says as his crumbles down. Maybe if he wasn't so noble maybe he could have a chance to know his niece. But his heart doesn't give him peace. It just isn't right. It isn't right for his brother not to know about his daughter, but also it isn't right for his niece and Care to go through it because of him.
"Stop thinking about it. I knew that we would get caught at some point. It's a miracle it took us six years to be caught."
"Care, how come you are so acceptable about all of this? How come you didn't crumble down on your wedding day? How come you are so strong? How come you are so optimistic? How come even tho life treats you bad, you fight it back? I'm admiring you."
"Well it's all for Emily. She's my anchor. She keeps me right in my mind, she keeps me willing to fight, and she keeps me happy. She's source of my power." Caroline continues " At first it was hard to accept everything and make peace with it. Maybe I haven't made a peace like I have wanted but everything I've done was for her. Nobody else."
"But how? It seems like you never were hurt or anything. It seems like you are some sort of phoenix."
"Maybe I am. I don't know. I mean in the end we are humans. We live, we feel, we suffer, we fight, we survive. We don't give up. Even tho everything inside is hurt, we just keep fight back, we just find another reason to live. That's just life as it is. We live, feel and suffer, but we fight back."