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Chapter 27:
"Le sourire qui s'allume. Le regard qui s'embrume. Et tu t'en vas danser au ciel. Tu m'apaises Tu me mens. Puis tu glisse doucement. Vers le plus beau des sommeils… Dors mon ange. Dans l'éternelle candeur. Dors mon ange. Le ciel est ta demeure. Vole mon ange. La vie est plus douce ailleurs…" I sang quietly, watching my beautiful only one week old baby girl look at me with wondering eyes.
I smiled and when Elijah stepped inside our bedroom the smile on my lips widened. Elijah gave both of us a kiss – one on my lips and one on Angel's forehead – and sat down beside the bed. He had something hidden behind his back and I of course wanted to know what he was hiding.
"How are you feeling today?" he asked.
"Well… the soreness is almost gone," I answered. "But my breasts are killing me!"
"Did I hear someone saying something about breasts?" Damon asked teasingly, sticking his head inside the room.
I rolled my eyes and wanted to throw a pillow at him, but it was kindda hard with a baby in my arms, so instead I used my powers to make push him out of the room, close the door, and lock it.
"He never changes, does he?" Elijah asked.
I shook my head and giggled. "What are you hiding behind you? Is it something for me?" I said curiously.
Elijah nodded and held out fluffy stuffed bunny with a pink bow around its neck and a matching pink was attached to its bow. The card said Congratulations with the girl – Caroline.
"I swear, that girl is becoming my little sister!" I said and laughed.
"I think she already is your sister. Just wait to you get downstairs to the living room and see what else she's bought with my credit card." Elijah said, shaking his head lightly.
I grinned and showed the fluffy bunny to our daughter, who began making happy noises. I gave her to Elijah along with the stuffed animal and he gently placed her in the adorable crib Adrienne and Alice had bought for me.
"Daddy Elijah, could I please talk with you for a moment?" Callum said teasingly outside the door.
Elijah sighed weakly and gave me another kiss before he left the bedroom. Lately, he, his brothers, and James had been trying to find Aldéric, but it seemed like Aldéric had fled France. I always worried that something was going to happen to either Elijah or our daughter. I loved them so much and even though my daughter was never going to meet her real father, then I knew that Klaus still loved us and looked over us.
"Did Daddy Elijah leave?" Damon asked teasingly.
"Why do you keep calling him that?" I asked, shaking head of him.
Damon smirked. "It's fun to annoy him, but it wasn't me who started it. James did," he answered and walked up to the sleeping hybrid. "I'm glad she mostly looks like you. Then when she turns 18 I can finally–"
"Don't finish that sentence! I will snap your neck if you so much as flirt with her when she turns 18!" I snapped and threw a pillow at him.
Damon laughed and walked back to me, lying down across the bed like a male model. "How are things going with you and Emilia?"
He smirked. "Fine, I guess. But it's just not the same… I can't stop thinking about her."
I sighed because I knew exactly who Damon meant. It bugged me that he was never going to be happy, because Elena was in love with Stefan, but sometimes love just worked in strange ways. I saw that with Klaus and even though I was happy with Elijah, then I still missed Klaus and often thought about all the good moments we'd had together.
"I'm sorry, Damon. I know it's hard to wait for the right to come, but sometimes it's a good thing to wait. I mean, I waited 469 years for Elijah and now we're finally happy together."
"So I have to wait for – what? 300 more years?"
I sighed again and moved up next to him. "That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that you need to be patient. It's hard to wait… very hard… and you're going to feel like it's worthless, but… trust me when I say this – it'll be worth in the end."
Damon leaned in to me and gave me a kiss that made me feel guilty – not because I was letting him do it, but because I knew that he wasn't the one to wait for so long for a girl he might not know yet, when he already knew and loved Elena.
"Elijah doesn't know how lucky he is to have you," he said when he finally pulled away. "Thanks for the talk, though."
He gave me a friendly kiss on my cheek and left the bedroom just before little Angel woke up crying, because she was hungry. I picked her up in my arms and carried her downstairs to the kitchen where James sat – sweet-talking Adrienne into going on a trip with him to Italy.
"Where's Daddy Elijah?" James asked when he saw me entering the kitchen.
"Out, I think. Who else are home?" I answered wonderingly.
"Well, besides us three, then I think Stefan, Elena, Caroline, and Bonnie are in the living room. I'm not quite sure of what they're doing, but it's probably baby-related. How's the mini-hybrid?"
I grabbed a bottle of blood mixed with my breast milk and let Angel drink it. "Hopefully, she's pleased now, but besides that she's fine. She just keeps waking up in the middle of the night – only because she wants a hug from Elijah. It's seriously annoying."
Adrienne smiled. "I think it's cute. I mean, she just wants her daddy. You can't blame her for loving him." she said.
I sat down at the table and watched how fast Angel emptied the bottle's content. "That's easy for you to say. You don't have to get up four times a night."
She and James grinned, but then they suddenly heard a noise coming from the entrance that made Adrienne leave the kitchen in a blur and suddenly snarl angrily at someone. I stood up and was about to check out what had happened, but James stopped me and went protectively in front of me. I could hear more voices at the entrance – Stefan's and Caroline's – and they mentioned a name that made me push past James with Angel still in my arms and hurry out to the entrance.
"Katherine? What are you doing here?" I asked confusedly.
Katherine moved her gaze to me and when she saw Angel in my arms I saw a glimpse of fear in her eyes. That made me tightening my grip around Angel in case she was here to hurt me, which seemed very unlikely since we'd worked together in the past.
"They're angry at you, Maeva." she said.
I frowned. "Who are angry at me?" I asked worriedly.
"The witches. The descendants of the other witches that helped Charlotte cursing Klaus. They want to see your daughter dead and they're giving a very… big reward for the one who succeeds," Katherine answered. "I met someone who were on their way to Mystic Falls and convinced them that you weren't there, but… I think they'll come soon anyway."
"Oh, God… We need to call Elijah and the others!"
They all nodded in agreement and I quickly sent Elijah a message telling him to come home right now, which I knew he would respond to right away. Only a few minutes passed by before Elijah was finally home and he looked like he was ready to kill someone, because he'd heard about the reward.
"What do we do?" I asked frantically. "If we leave we'll put ourselves in danger, but if we stay they'll probably try attacking us here!"
"Not with six Originals in the house, they're not. But we need to put up extra protection in case werewolves or witches try attacking us," Elijah said and turned his gaze to Bonnie. "Can you take care of that?"
"I'll see what I can do, but I can't promise anything." Bonnie said and sent me an apologizing look.
I shuddered by the thought of someone getting inside and trying to kill my daughter, who was only one week old. She wasn't capable of hurting anyone and I wasn't going to let her do that when she became older. Elijah noticed that I was scared and ushered me to the sofa in the living room, so I could sit down with him.
"Nothing is going to happen, Maeva. I promise. We'll find the witches and Aldéric and stop them before they can even cross the threshold." he said.
"Okay. I trust you." I said and took a deep breath to calm myself down.
Elijah moved his gaze down to our little girl and smiled with so much love in his eyes. He truly did love Angel even though she was just his niece."Do you think she knows?"
I frowned. "Knows what?"
He looked up at me with sad eyes. "That I'm not her real father. Do you think she… can sense it?"
The last seven days with Elijah acting as her father had went well, but now I could tell that Elijah did worry about the future and especially Angel's future.
"Would she wake us up just to get a hug by you for nothing? She adores you, Elijah. She may not know that you're not Klaus, but she'll look up to you as her father."
He was silent for a moment and when he opened his mouth to say something, I leaned in to kiss him and made him forget about his worries. He might be my husband, but if anyone had to worry about our child then it was me. He could worry about me and his siblings.
Elijah kissed me back tenderly and seemed less tense when he left the living room to talk with the others about what they had to do. I looked down at my daughter and wondered if she was conscious of what was going on right now. It was a shame that she was only 1 week old, because that meant that she wouldn't be able to protect herself or use her powers.
"I think it's about time I get my hands on the sunstone again," I said quietly and saw a smile form on her lips. "Yup, the one that made me super evil when I was pregnant with you."
I heard a giggle coming from beside me and looked up at a smiling Elena. "You want me to take her for you for a little while?" she asked kindly.
I nodded hesitantly and handed Angel to Elena, who luckily knew how to hold her and make her feel calm. I trusted Elena, so I left her with my daughter, while I went looking for the sunstone. I was going to need the extra power if I wanted to protect Angel and keep our enemies away. Just because I was human now didn't mean that I couldn't do anything. I was above all like a momma bear and they never let anyone or anything get close to any of their cubs…
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