Hey guys! Hope you all are enjoying the Easter holidays! Here's a special chapter to celebrate:
Klaus' POV:
Davina was still looking for a spell to kill the witch once for all and I couldn't wait too long. Patience never was a strong quality of mine and I couldn't just seat and wait, I needed to do something. So, I decided to hunt the witch (during the night, when Caroline was sleeping) and keep her as a prisoner to make sure she wouldn't make any dark spell in my family as in the dream I had until Davina finds a way to definitely kill her.
Young, old, dead or alive, witches are a pain in the ass. Usually, I wouldn't mind to hunt a witch, they might not be easy to be found but I enjoyed playing Cat & Mouse with my prey. But this time, it annoyed me having to sacrifice my time protecting Caroline to go after this imbecile witch.
I spent sort of 7 hours connecting dots and following clues until I finally found her.
"I know that you're here. Come on, I'm not in mood to play hide and seek" I said loudly, kicking a box in a little house hidden in the woods.
"Klaus Mikaelson, the guy who thinks is the king" I turned to the door and the woman was standing in front of me "I was wondering when you would show up. To what do I owe the pleasure?"
"If you have to ask that, you're even more imbecile than I thought you were"
I was ready to use my vampire speed to get her and drag her to a trap but before I could move she started to recite some words and I froze.
"Is that all that you got?" I asked her, breaking all the ice around me with my strength.
"Oh, I'm just warming up" she mumbled.
Caroline's POV:
"I can't do this!" I cried out to the doctor, the nurse, Rebekah and Stefan.
"You can't wait more" The doctor said, taking off his hand from the middle of my legs "You're ten centimeters already"
I looked in despair to Rebekah that was holding my hand "Please, tell him to wait. I'll wait for Klaus!" I cried.
Rebekah made a signal to Stefan and he went out of the room. With my vampire ears, I could hear him talking to Elijah on the hallway of the hospital:
"Did you find him?" Stefan asked.
"Still looking" Elijah answered and I could hear him pressing the buttons of his cell phone.
"Caroline" Rebekah called and I looked up to her. "Klaus might not be here, but you're not alone. I'm here and you have to do this"
"I NEED him!" I yelled, holding on with all my strength.
"Elijah, call him again!" Rebekah said in the middle of my screams knowing that Elijah could hear her from the hallway.
"Give me Caroline's phone or he'll never pickup"
Klaus's POV:
My hands were two inches apart from squeezing her throat and snapping her head when my cell phone began to ring. She enjoyed my distraction to run away in a second and I was so full of phone ringing that I was ready to smash it. But the name in the screen made me think twice.
"Caroline? I'm a bit busy right…"
"NIKLAUS MIKAELSON! In the name of all stupid things you've done in your life brother, try to do one decent thing for once and come here to be with your son's mother whilst she's giving birth" Elijah yelled at me like he never did before.
"What?! Caroline is in labor?"
"Labor? She was in labor a couple hours ago. Now she might be passing out of pain while she waits you show up"
I was about to tell Elijah to stop overacting but I heard Caroline's screams and cry coming from the background.
I hung up the phone. Think fast, think fast. The witchhad vanished and I had two alternatives: Hunt her and protect my family from dark magic or be with Caroline and watch my son being born but taking the risk of the nightmare with dark eyes happen.
Caroline's POV:
"Push!" Rebekah yelled.
"NO! I'll wait" I cried in despair, keeping my legs closed.
"You have to do this!" she yelled again and the monitor that was marking the baby's pulse passed from "beep-beep-beep" to "beeeeeeeeeeeep".
"There is NO TIME! I don't know if he needs to breathe to live but he's not breathing now!" The doctor yelled and a bunch of nurses surrounded me. My vision was getting blurry with all the strength that I was doing to hold on and my head fell behind, my muscles relaxing as my eyes were closing by themselves.
"She's passing out!" Rebekah yelled squeezing my left hand.
My vision was almost completely black when a warm, soft and familiar hand held my right one "Caroline! Stay with me!"
"Klaus… I knew you would come" I smiled amidst all the pain.
"I'm here, love" He caressed my hand "I'm here for you. Don't close your eyes! Stay with me!"
"I'm not going anywhere" I said, finding strength to keep holding on.
"Look at me. You'll have to be strong for both of us now, ok?" he said and I nodded. I can do this, I told myself.
"You have to start pushing now!" the doctor yelled again and I finally opened my legs, putting myself together and breathing deeply to start. When Klaus kissed my hand, I feel prepared to it.
I squeezed Klaus' hand and Rebekah held my hair up. Stefan stood close to the doctor and it was bad having all those people around me, but for some reason I felt better having my friend close to me.
"Stefan" Klaus called. "Stay near her head!" he said and Rebekah laughed. Klaus didn't want Stefan to see my legs.
My breath was getting heavier and heavier as I started to push and the pain was indescribable. Sometimes I had to stop and force the air to enter in my lungs, I couldn't breathe. When I felt I couldn't push anymore, I looked Klaus over and over again and all my strength was there again.
Klaus's POV:
The world started to move in slow motion since Caroline started to push and at some point, tears started to roll down my face against my will.
To my surprise, or to the surprise of everyone else in the room, Caroline didn't scream. She stood breathing heavily but she was EVEN. STRONGER. than I ever thought she was. It hurt in me to know she was in pain and I could feel it while she smashed my hand, but even thought she didn't scream.
I felt useless. I wanted to do something but there was nothing I could do instead of just being there for her.
Another strange and new feeling that I felt that moment was fear. I left that imbecile witch to come here and be with my family and I could literally pray that moment to her be very far from us now. I was fearful with the fact that my nightmare would come true.
Caroline looked at me every time she needed to breathe deep to catch air. At some point she saw my tears and I started to cry even more when she smiled to me. How in hell can she smile in that pain? I thought and I slapped myself. I was the one who was supposed to support her and not the contrary!
I was trying to pull myself together but the tears seemed to refuse stop rolling down my face. Caroline squeezed my hand one last time and the most beautiful sound in the world echoed in my ears. The cry of my redemption. My son was there.
In my long existence, there were little times that made me stop and really think about my life. But that moment… That moment was much more than the birth of my child. It was the moment that my thousand-years-old life really won a meaning.
As I wasn't all crashed out before, now I couldn't fight my tears at all. I glanced at Caroline and we both were smiling in middle of tears. I didn't let go of her hand when the doctor placed my son in my arms. I felt the world shake in my head for a second and softly, I kissed the forehead of that tiny and beautiful angel.
"Welcome to the world, my son. I think you'll find it very interesting" I whispered to him and my tears fell on his little face, mixing up with his.
I didn't wait him open his eyes as in the nightmare and carefully, I placed him in Caroline's arms. Henrik held her forefinger and stopped crying. She kissed his little hand and finally, to send away all my fear, he opened his eyes.
It had a very dark blue border and the blue cleared as arriving in the pupil until it reached almost a total white. Just like in the first dream the witch gave me. He was an angel.
I kissed Caroline's forehead and her smile made me feel in heaven. Rebekah and Stefan approached us to meet the new Prince of New Orleans and Elijah entered the room right after.
Without any fear now, I laughed of relief and I saw Rebekah and Elijah crying too. Such a tiny thing making the three originals cry and surrender to him.
A couple hours later, I was watching my two treasures sleeping. Both of them were all clean now. My strong queen was drowned in a deep sleep on the bed of the hospital and my son was laid in a very small crib by her side. He was so beautiful! His tiny little hands and feet made me enchanted.
Caroline moved her head and I noticed she had her eyes opened.
"You're awake" I grinned.
"Not so sure if I am… I feel so tired" she said with a husky voice and I saw she could barely hold her eyes opened.
"Rest, love. I'm here taking care of you both" I said, still grinning and I pulled a small light blue blanket to cover Henrik.
"He's perfect, isn't he?" she asked me.
"Yes. More than perfect" I said, kissing softly his cheek before I sat beside Caroline on the bed. "But you too" I said and she gave me a weak and low laugh. "I mean it, Caroline. I don't know how, but you made such a perfect thing" I said, looking to the small crib.
"We made" she corrected me and we smiled to each other.
"I have two more pendants to your bracelet" I said, taking a small package of my pocket and giving it to her. She opened it and the sparkle on her eyes filled me with warm.
"A baby" she said and I closed it on her wrist.
"Yes" I said, admiring her bracelet with three pendants: the globe, the heart and the baby "You taught me that when the love between two people doesn't fit in the chest, a new life is born" I told her.
She looked at the other pendant in the package "What is this circle?" she asked me.
"It's for you to remember the day that I asked your hand in marriage" I said, with a grin.
"What?" she tried to ask but her voice failed.
"Caroline Forbes…" I stood on my knees "…would you give me the honor of being my queen and marry me?"
"Finally found you!" I looked at the door and my heart froze of fear for my family with the sight of that witch staring us.
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