Hello lovely readers! Sorry it's taken so long for me to update; I've had a lot of work I've had to do for university and rehearsals for my theatre productions. Here is the third chapter of What They Wanted. Enjoy, and please review!


Chapter 3: It's Complicated

Caroline looked between the two of them, the shock evident on her face. She pressed her lips into a thin line and pointed at Hayley's stomach as she turned her gaze towards Klaus.

"Is it yours?" she asked and let her arm drop back to her side.

"Love, it's compli–"

"Is it yours?" she asked again, firmer this time.

Klaus bit the inside of his mouth, trying to formulate an answer.

"Yes," he said slowly, "But it was before we –"

"I don't care if it was before or after we had sex," she shot back, "Because it was clearly not long ago while you were still trying to get with me."

Klaus furrowed his brows. "Did you expect me to go cold turkey while I wait around for you and you do whatever you please? Because you seemed like you were going to take half a century to make up your mind about me. I don't think that's fair, love."

Caroline's jaw dropped and she pointed aggressively at Hayley again. "Well what about her? She went around and had fun with my boyfriend while I was still with Tyler, and then she messes around with you, too!"

"In my defence, I never intended on getting pregnant." Hayley cut in, but fell silent when Caroline glared at her.

"Then maybe you shouldn't have slept with him in the first place because there's always a god damn loop hole when it comes to you Originals." She said, looking between the two of them.

Trying to hide how infuriated he was, Klaus walked up to Caroline until they were only centimetres apart and looked down at her with a cold expression. "Whether we both like it or not, the girl is carrying my child, and I intend on being as hospitable as I possibly can until the child is born," He said coolly, "I don't need to get permission from you, love. In fact, your rejection was partly the reason why I seeked out the wolf's company."

Caroline's jaw went slack and she narrowed her eyes at him. "So you're throwing the blame at me? Now it's my fault?!"

"I never said it was your fault, I said you were the reason I did it. That, and we were drinking. It was in the heat of the moment, sweetheart."

"I don't care if it was 'in the heat of the moment'. Using protection is basic knowledge. Have you ever heard of it? It's stop you from accidently impregnating people." she shot back, her words dripping with sarcasm.

"I'm an Original vampire. It technically shouldn't have been possible."

"No, you're the Original Hybrid. You're part werewolf, you idiot. She's a werewolf, too. She still has bodily functions and she's actually alive, so yes, it is very possible. Duh. You both have the werewolf gene, but you both obviously don't have a brain."

"What on Earth is going on in here?"

Everyone turned towards the door to find Elijah standing in the entry. Caroline saw that Hayley had moved to go sit down on the closest chair with her hands over her stomach. Klaus still looked pissed off. Elijah looked around the kitchen at everyone, and his gaze settled on Caroline.

"Well, this certainly explains the bag of clothing in the upstairs guest room. May I ask what you are doing in New Orleans, Caroline?"

She glared a Klaus for a moment before looking back at Elijah. "I was just leaving." She said and walked past Klaus without looking at him. He grabbed hold of her wrist but she yanked it out of his grasp and stormed past Elijah and out of the house. She didn't have her car keys on her because she left them upstairs in her room, and she wasn't too keen on going back inside to get them after the argument, so she settled for walking.

She eventually found herself in the French Quarter again where she'd gone in search of Klaus when she arrived in New Orleans and went to the closest bar. There was a brass band playing jazz in one corner, and there were plenty of people sitting in booths or at the bar chatting and laughing. There were people on the dance floor dancing along to the jazz music. The bar was called Jolene's and it was full of life. Caroline took a seat at the bar and frowned when she remembered her purse was back at the house.

"Well, well, well. Fancy seeing you again, gorgeous." Someone said as they sat down next to her with a grin on his face. It was the guy who was trying to chat her up when she first arrived to town, Thierry.

"I'm really not in the mood for this right now." She said grumpily as she looked over the drinks list.

Thierry raised a brow. "Maybe you're in the mood for a drink, then?" he said and she raised a brow at him in question. He nodded towards the list she was looking at. "You look like you could do with one."

She sighed. "Fine."

Thierry grinned and ordered two drinks – a moscato for Caroline and a scotch for himself.

"So," Thierry said once he finished telling the bartender their order, "Did you end up finding Klaus yesterday?"

Caroline narrowed her eyes and Thierry bit his lip and nodded. "I'm taking it that you did and it didn't end well. There's been a lot of Original trouble around here lately."

Caroline scoffed. "Tell me about it. You know Hayley? The werewolf girl? She's pregnant with his kid. I knew I shouldn't have come here."

"Oh, I know. The kid's apparently a hybrid, too. Makes sense, but it's the first ever vampire baby. The Original baby. Seems fitting."

"I really don't want to talk about it." She said dryly.

"Well," Thierry took their drinks from the bartender and passed Caroline hers, "I'm sorry to disappoint, but that baby is the least of your worries. But just out of curiosity, why do you care if the girl is pregnant or not?"

"I said I don't want to talk about it."

"Oh, come on, gorgeous. I'll share if you share?" he said with a devilish grin.

Caroline eyed him for a moment, and took a sip of her moscato. He seemed harmless. Yeah, sure, he was a bit cocky, but she'd dealt with cocky before. It wasn't anything she couldn't handle.

"Fine. Before Klaus came back to New Orleans, he was in my hometown Mystic Falls. For some reason he liked me, which I honestly don't have a problem with, but he was the evil guy who we were all trying to kill, so it didn't exactly mix well. Anyway, I was dating Tyler at the time, but then Klaus turned him into a hybrid – Tyler was his first successful hybrid – and then Tyler figured out how to break the sire bond, so he took off to go help other hybrids break the sire bond. While he was gone, he met Hayley, apparently got with her while he was supposed to be with me, then broke up with me because he was more obsessed with getting revenge on Klaus than he loved me. And in that time, Klaus got Hayley pregnant, then Klaus came back to Mystic falls after leaving for a while and had sex with me, and then now I've just found out that little bitch is pregnant and I'm pretty pissed off because I can't have a successful relationship because she screws it up all the time. Literally." She said and sighed heavily once she finished her rant.

Thierry stared at her while he tried to process it all. "You slept with Klaus?"

She rolled her eyes and groaned. That was always everyone's reaction. "Yes, I did. Now you tell me what you promised."

"Okay, but your story is much more interesting."

"Just tell me already."

"Well, everything was running fine around here with Marcel in charge. No werewolves were around, the witches were in hiding, vampires could do whatever the hell we wanted. Then three of those Originals came along after years of not showing their faces, and everything turns to chaos. There's a pregnant werewolf; the witches are using magic and breaking laws; killings have started happening, and there's been a fight for control between Marcel and Klaus. Klaus originally started up this city, but once he left, Marcel took over and created a system that kept things in order. Now that's all gone to shit and chaos is brewing. We're all preparing for a war to break out soon between the different species. I wouldn't be surprised if it happened within the next few months."

Caroline sighed and traced her finger along the rim of her glass. She'd never heard of Marcel before. She'd have to ask Thierry or someone else who Marcel was, but that wasn't important right now. "It sounds like something Klaus would do."

"No kidding. And please don't tell anyone, but those Originals kinda scare me, especially Klaus."

"He doesn't scare me. Not anymore." Caroline said, remembering how Klaus had saved her several times. Okay, he was the cause of her close death twice, but he had helped her on countless occasions and saved her life more times than she'd care to admit. She broke out of her reverie when Thierry spoke up.

"Well then, let's toast to our shit lives and hope for the best."

She clinked her glass against his. "Cheers."


So what did you think? I felt like giving Thierry a proper scene this time, and I wanted to bring in the backstory of what's been happening in New Orleans for Caroline to get a better understanding of what she's gotten into. Let me know what you think and please review!

P.S. If you have any story requests that you would like me to write, just sent me a message and I'll be happy to give it a go!

Celeste xoxo