Nine
Katherine could barely concentrate on the breakfast in front of her even though it had been sitting on the table for the past fifteen minutes ever since the waitress had brought it. Even though they were on the outside patio of a small breakfast joint and there were dozens of people surrounding them Katherine and Elijah might as well be the only ones in the room.
There were both clearly tense and even though Elijah had been the one wanting to talk to her, he had hardly touched his coffee which was only irritating Katherine even more.
The only one that was in a happy mood seemed to be Karin who was playing with a spoon by knocking it back and forth against the table.
Katherine was the first one to break the silence. "Come on, Elijah," Katherine said as she started playing with her untouched omelet. "Look, I'm sorry that I slapped you last time I saw you, but you really made me mad when you threatened to take Karin away. Just because we had a few . . . off moments doesn't mean we can't have a decent conversation concerning our daughter."
Elijah nodded, he was glad that Katherine was being reasonable about this and it was obvious that Katherine loved Karin very much. He took a sip of her coffee. "I'm sorry as well, I'm ashamed of what I did, and I should have never tried to take Karin away from you. You're right you have been the one solely responsible for her since she was born."
Katherine nodded and sighed. "So what do you want to do?"
Elijah shrugged. He didn't exactly know where to start. "I assume you don't want to get any lawyers involved?"
Katherine nodded quickly. "I would rather just solve this between us."
Elijah nodded. "All right, I'm willing to pay child support every month and I will make up for the months that I wasn't presence for Karin's life. I do have one condition though."
Katherine stiffen. "And what's that?"
"I want to see Karin," Elijah said slowly as he studied Katherine's face. "Come on, Katherine don't give me that look, I deserve to know my daughter. I'm not asking you to move in with me, I just asking to see her once a week, maybe twice so that I become a familiar face. Karin deserves to know her father, Katherine."
Katherine nodded slowly, Elijah was right, she knew that, but it was hard to let go. Karin had been hers for six months it was kind of hard to share. "All right you can have visiting privileges once or twice a week, just as long as you don't bring one of your blond tag along with you."
Elijah chuckled. "I promise that I will take good care of her."
Katherine nodded as she pushed her plate away, she was too nervous and too anxious to eat anything. "Are we done here, I need to get Karin home. She gets cranky when she doesn't have her nap."
Elijah nodded as both of them stood up. "Of course."
Katherine grabbed Karin from the booster chair. "We'll take a taxi." Katherine said before Elijah could offered them a ride. "And call me when you want to visit."
"I will." Elijah said. "Can I-"
Katherine nodded as she handed Karin towards Elijah. Karin whimpered as she was pulled away from her mother's arms. "Don't worry, sweetie I won't hurt you." Elijah murmured as Karin relaxed into his arms and started playing with his tie.
Elijah kissed the side of her forehead and started rummaging a hand through Karin's chocolate brown curls. It would be a while before he started to get used to the fact that he had a daughter, not to mention that he would need to tell his baby sister Rebekah and his parents about Karin and her mother.
"Thank you." Elijah told her as he handed Karin back.
Katherine nodded as she took Karin. "You're welcome."
"ELIJAH!"
Rebekah's shout was heard through the hallway leading up to his penthouse, apparently she didn't care if she disturb anyone else.
"Sister," Elijah said tiredly as he served himself a glass of wine and stared at Rebekah who was obviously furious. "Is it really necessary for you to make such a commotion?"
Rebekah ignored him as she threw a throw pillow in his direction. "You stupid idiot!"
"Rebekah!" he snapped. "Have you lost your mind?"
"Katherine?" Rebekah snarled. "You got that little tramp pregnant? She's Elena's sister!"
Elijah's jaw twitched. "Please don't call her a tramp and yes, I do have a baby with Katherine. I've only recently found out."
"Why didn't you tell me?" Rebekah snapped.
"I was waiting for the right time," Elijah said weakly. "And frankly I knew that you would get like this."
Rebekah flushed. "How old is the baby? What's her name? Does anyone else know?"
"The baby's name is Karin and she's six months old," Elijah said as he took a sip of his wine. "And no, no else knows yet."
Rebekah crossed her arms over her chest. "And when are you planning on telling everybody?"
Elijah set down his glass of wine. "Frankly, sister that is between me and Katherine."
-End of Chapter Nine-
Thanks for your reviews, guys! Ok, a lot of you have been asking me to write longer chapters, so I'm asking for your opinion (Please keep in mind that I'm working on 3 other stories and I'm in college so things might get a little busy) would you rather have me:
a) Post longer chapters, but I'll only update once every week/2 weeks
Or
b) Post 2-3 short chapters every week
