Prompt: Daughter
Summary: In the distant future, Klaus and Liz own a small home in the town of Gedonelune, just south of the academy as they both teach at the academy as Professors, it's years later and their children a son and daughter are attending the academy now.
Klaus was rubbing his temples, he just had to witness his 16 year old daughter be affectionate to her new boyfriend. It was super weird, like just yesterday she was born and like not long before that her mother and I were here as students. Where did the time go?
"Professor Goldstein?" asked a student timidly.
He was notorious for being strict and it wasn't always best to interrupt one of his headaches.
"Yes?" He replied shortly.
"I'm sorry sir, but you were going to write out our homework assignments, before the bell
Klaus turned around and casted the enchantment for his assigned homework to appear on the board.
"Norbert", stay behind a moment please" Klaus requested aloud.
His daughter Aurora, gave him a glance before giving him her warning stare. He ignored her, where did she think she inherited that from hmm.
Once alone, Klaus went straight to the point.
"Norbert, Do understand that Aurora is Professor Hart's and my daughter, before you decide to do anything unwarranted, Aurora has the habit of not letting poor souls as yourself know that we are her parents. You are dismissed" Klaus warned him coolly.
The poor boys face paled as he nodded in understanding before fleeing.
Out of the shadow's appeared Aurora.
"You know dad, this is why I don't let them know who's family I come from. Hardly anyone knows that mom is your wife but they aren't afraid of her as much as yourself. Plus all my cousins attend so it's anyone's guess whos your children may be." Aurora muttered a bit upset she may have lost another boy.
"Maybe you should stop deceiving them as much than Rora, you are a Goldstein, not a Hart, your mother only uses her maiden name professionally so as to not confuse the other students as we have worked together for years, but she did take my last name in marriage." Klaus reminded his daughter.
He didn't quite understand what kind of game she was playing, her brother Shayne had inherited his mother's look's more than his and well she was just another Goldstein with the golden blonde hair, fair complexion and bright violet eyes. Her cousin's looked all like another generation of Goldstein's, although it irked both of his brother's, Klaus's was the only one fortunate to say that his son had missed that. Aurora was also messing with their ploy of indifference between them as parents as she claimed Liz as her mother, but looked like him gave yield to the rumours of the romance between them. More people found out they were married.
Klaus sighed loudly before gathering up his things and leaving to his office.
Later on, a knock came.
"Who is it?" he called out.
"It's Liz, Klaus" she replied through the door.
"Come in" he called back to her.
Liz entered and locked the door behind her, she had received his note about Aurora and that they needed to talk.
He got up from his marking and put on a pot of tea like the old days.
"*giggle* I know this is serious, but I can't help like feel like we're back to being students spending time together in the Prefect's office" Liz said
Klaus sat down across from his wife and smiled. Yes it had been a long time since they spent time like this together on school grounds, it was more of the norm to be like this in their cozy home in town.
"So, Aurora is going around insisting she is a Hart? Even though she clearly looks like you, and has our family name, I would say she is deceiving everyone because she is ready to have a boyfriend but she knows that if she lets on that you are her father than all the boys won't come near her." Liz explained to Klaus lightly.
"Yes well I don't appreciate her unraveling our secret that we're married to the whole academy, we decided it best that you use your last name instead of ours to not mess with the students, this arrangement has worked for years and our child is interfering." laminating Klaus frustrated.
"Well we did decide this was for the best when we were young professor's before Shayne was born, do you think perhaps that it is time, I used my actual surname? The students are going to figure it out sooner or later, we aren't hiding who our children are"
"Sigh* you're right, there's no point anymore of hiding our marriage, it's been years, and our children and other relatives are here with us now, I will speak to the headmaster Conrad and arrange an assembly for tomorrow morning" Klaus agreed with her, the arrangement always worked till now that they never really worried it.
The next day after the assembly, Aurora was fuming, her parents had announced their 22 year old marriage and her mother would remain Professor Hart, as to continue not to confuse the two when people referenced them together, but it put an end to the romance rumors and that also made clear that herself and Shayne were they're children.
The boys avoided her like the plague and as the day wore on she began to lose hope in ever finding true love like her parents. On the other hand weirdly enough Shayne was getting more and more popular with the ladies, hmph they just want to marry and gain the Goldstein name and repetition those witches… she would give up her deceitful behavior and go back to being a Goldstein….
Liz kept an eye out for Aurora and she felt bad for her as it seemed that her dreams of finding young love were falling through now that no one wanted anything to do with her, with Klaus being her father. She never quite knew what that was like since she used to be a nobody and the Goldstein's didn't have very many daughters in the last few generations, she could understand where the boys were coming from though, Klaus was a force not to be reckoned with, he was even more scary than Schuyler was. Professor Randolph retired as a professor the year that Liz graduated and surprisingly Schuyler was named his successor.
Shayne was getting irritated that so many girls were practically throwing themselves at him since it was announced that his parents were indeed married for quite awhile now. His cousins were popular as well, but they looked more like a Goldstein then himself, he looked more like his mother. He did notice that his sister was getting down in the dumps over this and so he took it upon himself to check in with her.
He found her hiding up in one the towers sulking with her friends. They were sympathetic about her not being able to get a boyfriend.
"Rora?" he coughed, letting them know he was there.
The girls giggled at him before excusing themselves to leave for class.
"Don't you have dad's class first?" Shayne asked quietly.
"I'm mad at him currently… I don't care if i get extra classes because of it." she grumbled moodlily.
Ah it was times like this, that Shayne knew he had to tread carefully. Unlike their mother who was mature and not very emotional when things got rough, Aurora was a bunch of emotions at the same time.
"Alright, I can understand why, but wouldn't it be easier to just accept the situation? Guys who can't look past our name aren't worth the effort if I can say so myself, I think it would be nice to get to know someone who could care less that we are Goldstein and want to know us as Shayne and Aurora, our own person, not who our parents are." Shayne said wisely.
"*sniff* that's the problem, Shay… nobody wants to even talk to me now, they are all too afraid of dad to dare and like he scared off the last one by calling him out in front of my class." she complained with tears coming to her eyes.
Shayne wrapped his arm around his sister and sighed a little.
"Well than your problem is with dad and I believe you two need to talk and work something out, we are old enough now to date and decide to be with whoever we want." muttered Shayne.
"Thank you brother, I will" Aurora whispered hugging him back.
After classes that day, Aurora stomped her way to her father's office and wanted to pound on the door angrily but thought otherwise when she got there. She knocked lightly.
"Come in" Klaus called from inside.
Aurora took a breath and braced herself to have a talk with him.
She entered the room and nodded at him politely.
"What is it Aurora? I am busy" he said not looking at her.
She wanted to ask the obvious but stopped herself, Goldstein don't ask dumb questions…
"Father, I wanted to talk to you about scaring off potential boyfriends, would you please refrain from butting your way into my business, I am old enough to decide for myself…" she bravely declared.
"I agree that you are old enough now, but please stop picking the worst ones, if you didn't know already… Nobert already has a secret girlfriend on the side, you don't need that dear" Klaus said like it wasn't a big deal as he already took care of the pest.
Aurora blinked in surprise, she hasn't known that and her dad unknowingly saved her from that hurt.
"Well thank you for the interference then father…" she awkwardly stumbled.
"Of course, you are my daughter after all" Klaus said smiling at her.
Aurora nodded again and excused herself.
She went running to Liz, who just laughed at the story.
"I am sorry pumpkin, your father means well but he isn't the best at expressing himself." explained Liz.
"I don't think I will ever understand the love between you two and what you had to go through mom" shivered Aurora, Klaus was so scary when he smiled.
"Oh Aurora, the next time we see Uncle Elias, please ask him about that, you may understand yet" Liz patted her daughter's head gently.
~fin