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A few days later…
The tall witch named Beth walked downstairs. Klaus followed her. 'Here,' he said, pointing towards a large door.
'She's in here?' Beth asked, referring to Céline.
'Yes,' Klaus said.
'You've given her enough water to survive?'
'Yes,' Klaus said.
'Well, that's great,' Beth asked. 'In a few days it'll be full moon. At that day we will do the spell.'
'And then our arrangement will end?' Klaus asked.
'Your daughter is born, you did what you had to do… Yes, you'll be home in a few days.'
Klaus smiled.
'I believe I hear my daughter cry,' he said. 'I'll have to go to her.'
He sped towards his little girl. Penelope did look like Hailey; she already had a few brown tresses and he recognized Haileys cheekbones. She stopped crying when she saw her daddy.
Klaus removed his daughter slowly from her crib. When he touched her hand, she clamped her fingers around his indication finger. Klaus smiled.
'So… you're hungry, right?' he asked. 'Let's get you some milk…'
He walked towards the kitchen. Caroline stood there, opening the fridge. 'Hello,' she smiled when she saw them. She caressed Penelope's cheek. 'Are you hungry again?'
'Do you want to feed her?' Klaus asked.
Caroline smiled. 'Sure. Wait a sec, I'll make her some milk.'
Penelope laid her head against Klaus shoulder. Klaus kissed her forehead. He hadn't know it was possible to adore someone like he adored his daughter. Meanwhile, Caroline made a bottle.
'I'm going to sit on the couch,' he said.
In the living room, Katherine and Damon were. They smiled when they saw Penelope.
'Hello darling,' Damon cooed.
Caroline walked towards them and smiled. She sat beside Klaus and Klaus hand Caroline Penelope over.
Everybody looked mollified.
'Where's Hailey?' Klaus asked.
'She's with Elena,' Damon said. 'Trying her ring.'
'And Elijah?'
'I've no idea,' Damon said.
'Great,' Klaus said. 'Cause I wanted to talk with you about…'
'Hello vampires,' the witch named Beth said. She gave Damon a cocky smile and Damon recognized the witch that wanted to stake him. He gritted.
'Hello,' Caroline responded. Katherine gave her a nasty look; she remembered the stake-incident too.
'I wanted to talk with you because I need a volunteer,' the witch smiled.
'Why?' Damon asked.
'For the spell to bring Bonnie back,' Beth said.
Katherine and Damon looked surprised. 'You didn't tell them?' Beth asked.
'Not yet,' Klaus said. 'To be honest, I forgot.'
The witch turned towards Damon. 'When it's full moon, we are going to do a spell to bring Bonnie back. For that spell we need the blood of a sibling, blood from a witch and vampire blood.'
'Why don't you perform the spell today?' Damon asked.
'When we do the spell we're able to see Bonnie's ghost, but only if she's in the moonlight,' Beth said. 'Besides, the moon gives us power.'
She winked at Damon. 'So… Any volunteers?'
'No,' Katherine said. She laid her hand at Damon's knee. The witch had to smile.
'Me,' Caroline said.
Klaus gritted. He didn't want Caroline to give her blood, but he couldn't say that in front of the witch.
'Great,' Beth said. 'That's all I needed.'
She walked away and Klaus sighed.
'She likes you,' Caroline said to Damon.
'Who doesn't?' he winked.
Katherine had to laugh and let her head rest at Damon's shoulder. 'Someone's a little jealous,' Klaus smirked. 'Katherina, I didn't consider you the jealous type.'
'Shut up, Niklaus,' Katherine said.
Klaus laughed. Caroline looked at him. His daughter had changed him so much. He wasn't cruel anymore, he was caring, sweet and nice. She wondered how long this would take. But she also wondered if this was a change. Maybe it was just another part of him, that he had hidden until Penelope was there.
'I'm going back,' Hailey said.
'You're sure?' Elena asked.
'You don't have to come with me if you don't want to,' Hailey said. 'I don't need a babysitter.'
Elena sighed. 'Hailey, I know that's hard to be a new vampire. I've been one too. It's really hard to control yourself.'
'Klaus told me not to hurt anyone,' Hailey said. 'And because of the sire bond, I won't. I want to see my daughter, Elena.'
'Then go back,' Elena said. 'I stay here.'
Hailey smiled and left. Elena sighed. She envied Hailey. She had a daughter. Elena would never have children. She turned around to walk further, but she almost crashed into Elijah.
'Elena,' was the only thing he said.
'Elijah,' she responded, sounding a little bit annoyed. 'What are you doing here?'
'I wanted to talk to you,' Elijah said.
Elena was a little bit surprised. 'Then talk,' she said, sounding a little grumpy.
'Let's walk together,' Elijah proposed. Elena didn't know what he was up to, but she followed him when he walked away from her.
'It's going to snow,' Elijah said.
'What?'
'I know, it's rare, but it happens,' Elijah said. 'Anyway, we'll have a white New Years Eve.'
'It's 31 December,' Elena said. 'That's so… weird.'
'Why?' Elijah said.
'Well, ten days ago, I was planning my first Christmas with Damon, and now, we broke up, he's together with Caroline, we're befriending Klaus, we found out Bonnie's dead and that she's about to come back to life and Penelope is born.'
'Caroline told you,' Elijah said.
'She did,' Elena sighed.
'Then why are you sad?' Elijah asked.
Elena sighed again. She didn't want to talk about Damon. She spent the last 4 days talking about Damon. But still… she had lost him. To Katherine. It was unbelievable.
She had just been a replacement.
Out of the blue, Elijah pulled her towards him and kissed her.
'You're going on a date?' Caroline asked. 'Well… have fun?'
'We will,' Damon said. 'Wait, there she comes.' When Katherine walked towards him, his heart leaped in his chest.
She was wearing a sweet, short dress that stood her very well. But it wasn't her dress. It wasn't the fact she was damn beautiful. It was the look in her eyes. The look that let him know he was the only one. An at that moment he knew he would never love anyone else like he loved her that moment.
She smiled at him and he felt himself smile back.
Katherine walked towards him and they entangled their fingers. 'You look beautiful,' he told her.
'So do you, handsome,' Katherine winked.
'Please, take it outside,' Hailey gritted.
'Weren't you outside with Elena?' Klaus asked.
'Yes. And now I'm here.' She sped away and Damon sighed dramatically. 'New vampires – they're just teenagers.'
'Come on Damon, let's leave.'
'Where are you going to?' Caroline asked.
'Well… that's a surprise,' Damon said. 'But I'm sure she'll love it.'
'Don't be so sure,' Katherine said flirty. They laughed. With Damon's arm around Katherine's waist, they left the house.
'Are they gone?' Hailey asked.
'Yes.'
'Thank god,' she said. She let herself thud on the couch and sighed.
'You're jealous,' Klaus realised.
'What? No!' Hailey said.
'Yes you are,' Klaus said. 'What's that with the Salvatore brothers and women?'
'Who's jealous now?' Caroline teased him.
'I'm not jealous, I'm just wondering why every woman likes the Salvatore brothers.'
'Well, because they're smart, funny, sweet and really handsome,' Hailey said.
Klaus looked a bit worried.
'You're really cute when you're jealous,' Caroline smiled.
'I'm not jealous,' he said.
Caroline kissed him. 'Yes you are,' she murmured against his lips.
Jeremy was in the Boarding House. Alone with Stefan. And Stefan was quite grumpy, so he preferred being alone. He had found Elena's phone in pieces, so he knew he couldn't reach her. He tried to call Caroline, but she didn't took her phone. So he sat on his room, alone. He was reading an old Dracula book he had stolen from Damon, but then he heard something strange.
'Jeremy,' Bonnie said.
'Bonnie!' Jeremy practically screamed. 'I haven't seen you in months!'
'I know,' Bonnie said. 'But Jeremy, you've to listen to me know.'
'What's wrong?' Jeremy asked.
Bonnie sighed.
'The witches,' she whispered.
'The ones who are taking care of Hailey?' Jeremy asked.
'Yes. You need to go to New Orléans and stop them.'
'Stop them?' Jeremy repeated. He was feeling a little dizzy. 'From what?'
Bonnie looked at him with piercing eyes. 'From killing Klaus.'
So... What do you think? Is Klaus going to be killed or not? Do you want him to be killed?
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