I have to tell you

It's amazing that she has been able to keep all that has happened to her a secret this long, and she can probably thank Elena for it. The fact that her friend turned her humanity off has them all distracted, which is why they're hoping for something good when Elena decided that she wants to be a cheerleader again.

Caroline's first reaction was to refuse her, she can't have Elena destroy all that she worked for with the squad, but at the same time, they are supposed to help her.

In this case, not letting Elena in might do as much damage as letting her join since Caroline has gracefully tried to come up with an excuse for why she can't compete. She isn't sure how a magic pregnancy would react to being thrown around in the air with the risk of landing badly.

So far, no one has asked any hard questions to answer, but she misses being able to compel people to just agree with whatever excuse she has. Well as long as no one figures out that she is pregnant, and the wrong person doesn't find out too soon, thinking about Klaus, everything should be fine.

She shouldn't have to worry about it for that long anyway, she is planning on telling him tonight once the cheerleading competition is over and her friends are busy keeping an eye on Elena.

Is she a horrible person for using her friend's problem to her advantage? She really hopes not because humanity-less Elena is a really good way to divert attention, at least until she is ready to tell them what is going on.

When that day comes for her to tell her friends all, she just hopes that she has had enough time to truly understand everything that is happening and maybe she can even get more explained from Cyrena.

The baby from the cabin have kept haunting him ever since that day. He has heard it crying from one of the unoccupied rooms next to his own, but whenever he enters it's always empty, no one in sight.

He had hoped to distract himself with extracting information from the werewolf that had helped the professor and now needed protection from Katherine of all people. Sometimes the world seems really small.

It just that he isn't the only one that wants something from her. "So, where is that little backstabber Hayley and what does she know about Katherine?" Damon asks him when he shows up with a list of things he thinks Klaus sucks at.

"I should help you?" because that makes sense, at least according to Damon it does. "After you lot killed my brother," that he is alive again shouldn't matter since they always seem to be angry over what he's done to Elena, including killing her. "and imprisoned me in the Gilbert living room?" he adds just for the personal inconvenience.

Damon apparently not noticing Klaus complete lack of interest in helping closes the distance between them. "You might want to prioritize, Klaus. You have much bigger problems." When Klaus looks at him blankly Damon continues to explain the predicament. "Katherine has the cure." Of course she does. "My guess is she's gonna want to cram it down your throat. If I get the cure, I'll give it to Elena, everybody wins."

Normally he might have seen use in Damon's proposal, just to make sure that the cure wasn't used on him, but the circumstances have changed quite a lot. "If Katherine has the cure, she's going to try and negotiate her freedom." He says while taking place in the couch. "I'll gladly give it to her if it means that we can stop Silas."

The look on Damon's face when it's starts to sink in that he won't get any help from Klaus in finding the older doppelgänger amuses him. Even if Klaus would have liked to be able to create a new set of hybrids he would rather keep Caroline on his good side for now.

But that doesn't mean that he can't use Damon to find Katherine, it's just better if the vampire isn't aware of it. "If you want to conduct your own investigation, I did have a run-in with a vampire who may know where Katerina is. Too bad for you, I bit halfway through his bloody neck. He probably won't have much time for chit-chat."

It got Damon's attention and he has soon left the mansion. With everybody looking for the cure it's going to be found sooner or later, he just has to make sure that no one takes it before they can use it on Silas.

Once it has gone quiet around him the sound from the baby can be heard again. Quiet and slowly he makes his way up the stairs to the room the sound is coming from. He doesn't expect to see anything but it's like he is drawn there.

Opening the door, he is met by the boy that led him to the cabin that first time. "Play with me." The boy says, running past Klaus and disappears.

Klaus stares at the last place the boy was visible, something really weird is happening and he would like to get a few answers from the witch.

Everything is ready for the competition and Caroline is enviously looking at her teammates as they are waiting for their turn. She would want to compete, this was supposed to have been her year, but she guesses that it wasn't to be.

Searching the team for her friend she notices that Elena is missing. Great, now she has to worry about the chaos a missing humanity less vampire can create.

To her relief, her missing friend soon enters the hall once more. "Hey, where were you? You're going on any minute."

"I'm here aren't I?" Elena answers.

Caroline wonders how someone that isn't supposed to feel anything can be so incredibly good at annoying her. The fact that Elena is wearing a blue ribbon isn't making her feel any better either. "What's with the ribbon? That's not even our colours."

Elena doesn't give her an answer, she just smiles and twirls her ponytail while walking away, not caring about Caroline's annoyance.

Wanting to figure out what Elena has done now, Caroline looks around spotting one of the opponents in a blue suit with a scarf around her neck. At this point, it isn't hard to guess why the girl is wearing a scarf.

Right now, she doesn't care what her friends think is the best way to help Elena, because this behaviour can't continue. "Are you out of your mind?" she hisses once she has caught up to the doppelgänger.

"What is your problem?" Elena turns around to face her.

Last time Caroline checked, Elena was her problem. "Feeding on the competition? Hello. Did you not hear what Damon told you?" because she is sure that he used the sire bond to stop her from feeding on people.

"I did, but who cares? I'll do whatever I want." Well, that is becoming obvious, Caroline thinks.

Before she can take her anger out on Elena, Stefan comes up behind her. "Everything all right?" he wonders.

If Caroline got to answer then it would be a big no, because everything is completely wrong. But Elena doesn't seem to think so. "Yeah, as soon as the queen backs off, everything will be fine." Elena leaves them to join her team.

This can't be good, Caroline thinks, keeping her eye on Elena so that she doesn't decide to eat anyone else. "Remember how Damon sired her to behave?" she asks Stefan. "It didn't really work."

Right now, she feels like hitting something, she doesn't have the time to deal with Elena drama when she has her own problems to deal with. It doesn't get better when Stefan's solution, for now, is to call Damon and inform him, so they can come up with some plan.

Before Stefan can do that Caroline grabs his arm to stop him. "Just let me get this out. I'm leaving this mess to you guys because I am more likely to kill her then help her, and I have my own problems to deal with so good luck."

"Caroline," Stefan calls after her when she turns to leave. "This isn't her, you have to remember that."

She is trying but it isn't easy. "Well, she turned her humanity of Stefan, she didn't turn in to a completely different person." Sighing she looks over to her friend. "She's aware of the consequences and sadly I do think that this is a part of her, even if it might be a very small part that we rarely see."

Before Stefan can say anything more she leaves the gym. She is going to get home and prepare whatever speech she is going to give Klaus in hope that he will believe her.

So far Hayley had been mostly useless. She has no idea of where Katherine has disappeared to and he can see why the older doppelgänger found her to be a good pawn, easy to fool and would have been even easier to get rid of if he hadn't interfered.

At the moment the werewolf is studying his paintings and Klaus needs a bit of time away from her, checking in with Kol is a good enough excuse, that is if his brother would deem it necessary to answer the phone.

"If I don't answer the first few times it usually because I don't want to talk to you." He answers after a few tries too many in Klaus mind.

Trying to keep calm, which is hard with everything that is going on, Klaus goes right to the point of his call. "How is your search going?"

"As expected," Kol says with a sigh. "Any information about Cyrena is just like everything else, myths and Katerina, well she is good at keeping herself hidden."

He had hoped for at least something good, but what does he expect, why would things start to go easy now of all times. Maybe they will have some luck and Silas will take his time making his way her at least.

"Was there anything else?" Kol asks when Klaus has been quiet for a while.

"If you can't find anything out about Katerina's whereabouts on your own, keep an eye on the older Salvatore and our sister. Make sure Rebekah doesn't take it or that they force it on Elena." Can't they let her stay a vampire when she now wants it, he thinks that it would be less of a hassle.

"Fine, but you're going to owe me." Kol says before he hangs up.

Putting his phone away he joins Hayley again, who has helped herself to his bourbon. "You're back." She says with a small smile. "Do you usually leave your guest alone?"

"You are not really a guest, let's remember that." He takes the glass out of her hand, placing it on the table. "You are someone that asked for protection in return for information. Information that you have yet to give."

She shrugs. "Maybe I'm not in a sharing mood." And he is not in a mood to play games.

Grabbing her arm, he draws her near. "Hey, watch it." She yelps.

"Remember those unpleasantries that were mentioned over dinner." He can see how she swallows nervously. "If you don't want me to kill you in Katerina's stead, you will deliver your end of the bargain."

It's now or never if she doesn't go through with it and tell Klaus now she is probably never going to have the courage to do so later. There's just so long she can keep it a secret to before he would find out from someone else, or by seeing her growing belly.

But a part of her wants to turn around, she's afraid of how he will react to the news. Vampires aren't supposed to be able to procreate and that is what has happened here. She will totally understand if he doesn't believe her.

When she enters the mansion, the first thing she hears is him talking to someone. "My sister informs me that your vampire assailant is dead, so you're safe and free to go" she wonders who's here.

"So this is it, you want me to leave now?" That was Hayley's voice.

Not caring that she is technically marching through a home that isn't hers, she suddenly is in a hurry to get to the room their talking in. "What the hell is she doing here?" both Klaus and Hayley are looking surprised at her.

"She was just leaving," Klaus answers and makes his way to her. "And what can I help you with, luv?"

Recovering from the surprise of Caroline's appearance, Hayley managed to give a snarky remark. "Wow, Tyler leaves town and you throw yourself at Klaus." She passes them on her way out, glaring at Caroline. "Not the perfect little girlfriend you would like everyone to believe you are."

She knows that it's childish, but right now she's acting on instinct and when Hayley makes it to the door, Caroline's eyes turn silver and Hayley gets the door in her face. If nothing else, it made Caroline happier and hastened Hayleys steps out of there.

Now alone Caroline turns to Klaus again. "We need to talk." She takes a deep breath and moves to sit on the couch. "I know why Cyrena brought us together after the pageant."

"Should I be worried?" Klaus sits down next to her. "This isn't just another weird spell she's never going to explain right?"

Caroline shakes her head. "No, but I don't think you're going to like it, or even believe it." She takes his hand, resting it on her stomach. "I'm pregnant."