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Within Temptation- Chapter Thirty Five
"Isn't eating ice cream in the morning completely not okay?" Damon asked, watching Rebekah shoving a spoonful of French vanilla ice cream into her mouth as she sat at the dining table in the kitchen, reading over a parenting book.
"When you're pregnant. You get a free pass. So, did you know that there is no scientific evidence that proves that sugar makes a child hyper?" She asked, slowly closing her eyes and indulging in the ice cold feeling of the ice cream hitting her tongue. "Mmm." She sighed, opening her eyes again to see Damon's eyebrows raised at her, his hands on his hips.
"So, how did it go with Katherine and Caroline yesterday?" He paused, pouring himself a cup of coffee in his travel mug as he turned back behind him to grab a packet of sugar.
"Katherine who?" Rebekah questioned, shaking her head and shutting the book in front of her with irritation as she placed her hand onto her already round almost to the 7 month mark pregnant belly.
"So, you two aren't on speaking terms anymore I take it. But, what about Caroline?" He asked her, stirring his coffee with a spoon and tasting it before he put the spoon in the sink to his left side. "We're not. Katherine tried to apologize and I thought it over. To be honest, I don't know if I can forgive either of them. And, as far as Caroline Mikaelson goes, she has a lot of making up to do and, throwing me a baby shower isn't even going to be the start of it."
"Caroline wants to throw you a baby shower, even if you two aren't speaking?" Damon asked her with an intrigued tone as she watched him straighten out his dark blue suit. He was headed to the office to check up on a small meeting that Stefan had called mandatory for all of his closely trusted board members and main employees.
"Yes, she thinks that it would be her way of making me accept her apology. But, she's got her work cut out for her. And, so does Katherine." Rebekah explained, slowly getting up as she watched Damon rush over to her, helping her up gently out of the chair she had been sitting in for the last hour.
"Listen, sweetheart. Just, don't stress about it. If Caroline wants to throw you a baby shower for the baby. Then, that's fine." Damon told her, leaning into his fiancée and kissing her cheek as she sighed out an annoyed breath. "What did you just say?"
Damon smiled, moving a strand of her blonde hair behind her ear before he tried to explain his thoughts. "I just said that if she wants to throw you one. Then, let her. I mean, it'd be better than having your mother come all the way into town to help out." He stated, watching her sweet stare at his face turn into annoyance.
"What do you have against my mother? Damon, I'd rather have her come here than have my former best friends throw me a party that would only turn into a disaster. Besides, Katherine can't even leave the damn house to go out to pick things up for a baby shower. She's got that hideous ankle monitor on her leg!" She replied to him, rolling her eyes and stepping away from Damon as his soft voice stopped her.
"I don't have anything against your mother, Bexs. Honestly, I'd love to see her again." He stated, watching her turn around as she placed her hands on her lower back and rubbed her aching muscles. "Great, because she's going to be here for the birth of her second grandchild and she's dying to know what we're having!"
"Did you tell her that we don't want to know until the baby's born?" Damon asked, watching her nod. "Oh, I told her alright. And, she said that whatever the baby is that she'll love him or her and as long as it's healthy. That is all that matters." She told him, slowly making her way out of the kitchen as Damon looked back at the table, eyeing the book that she had been reading earlier. He waited a few seconds before Rebekah was out of sight to look it over. "Wedding venues and ideas." He read out loud, looking at the cover and smiling to himself.
"I forgot my book." Rebekah suddenly stated behind him, watching him drop the one he held in his hands as he gave her a sly smile.
"Wedding ideas?" He questioned, seeing her smile.
"Yes, Damon. Because, after the baby's born we're going to eventually need to get married. Unless you want to be engaged for the rest of our lives." She joked, snatching the book from his hands as he placed his other hand on top of her wrist, stroking her skin tenderly.
"I want to marry you and I want us to be happy." He stated, kissing the tip of her nose and glancing over at the clock as he mumbled a curse word under his breath.
"I gotta go sweetie, work and Stefan are waiting." He smirked, pulling her against him and leaning down to kiss her belly, whispering goodbye to the baby. "Love you both." He told her, leaving a quick kiss upon Rebekah's lips before he pivoted on his heels and grabbed his cell phone and car keys. "I'll be back later today. And, sweetheart remember that if you see Caroline or Katherine today at all. Don't let them get to you. Kill them with kindness." He winked, blowing her a kiss as he walked out, hearing her softly reply back to him. "Sure, I'll try."
"We're losing money and a lot of our long time employees are quitting. Sadly, it's all because I've been too focused on other things except for this business that Damon and I are the owners of! Our vendors won't even ship things to us anymore because we haven't even sold the last of our shipments and because of all of us being in the news for scandals and all this other bullshit, we're losing clients!" Stefan exclaimed, rubbing his hands vigorously over his face as he sat down behind his desk and looked across from him where Klaus, Damon and Elijah all sat.
"You've been through a lot, Stefan." Elijah announced, watching his former best friend glare over at it. If he could have had it any other way, he would have told Elijah that he wasn't a part of Dasell's any longer. However with Klaus and Damon's persistence of keeping Elijah a part of the team. Stefan had become outnumbered and had to call Elijah into the meeting and back into the offices because he knew that he needed a close ally and even though they were all trying to move past everything, Elijah was still one of his closest when it came to his business ventures.
"We all have. But, it's time to move past that and focus on saving this company. Before, we go bankrupt." Damon chimed in, watching Klaus nod as he exhaled deeply.
"I know that you said you don't want to give her anything or that you don't want Katherine near Dasell's any longer. But, I think we need to call her back into the board meetings so that we can have more ideas as to how we're going to keep this place alive." Klaus suggested, shifting his eyes from Elijah, to Damon and then back to Stefan who looked like he was about to rip his hair out from the comment.
"Do we have any other options aside from bringing Katherine back in to the same company that she tried to destroy? Oh yeah and back in to me working with her. Honestly, I don't think that working with my soon to be ex-wife will go over very well with anyone." Stefan said to his brother, watching Damon shake his head and fold his hands together against his knee.
"You mean with Elena. Working with Katherine and bringing her back into the fold won't go over well with Elena because you still want to give your girlfriend her sister's job." Damon said with a knowing tone, glancing up at Stefan who was silent for a while, the only thing being heard was the tapping of his pencil hitting against the top of the desk that he sat behind.
"Yes, I do. Katherine's become a liability for us. And, if news got out that after everything she's done that I decided to hire her back here. Things would be a disaster." Stefan told them all, watching Elijah scrunch his nose and heavily exhale.
"I disagree, Stefan. As much as you think that hiring her back would be a bad thing. I think she could help us. Hell, I think that they both could. Maybe Elena and Katherine need to put their differences aside completely and work together to help us from drowning. Because, let's be honest. That's what's going to happen here if we don't all be adults about this and work together." He told him, watching Stefan swallow the lump in his throat. The thought of losing Dasells, a company that Stefan had turned into his pride and joy made him feel completely uneasy.
"Fine, since we don't have another choice. We'll bring them both in and we'll talk to them about everything. I know that Katherine is on house arrest still. But, she can be here without her ankle monitor going off and Lexi said that as long as she checks in with her that Katherine's sentence could be lessened in a few months." Stefan replied, looking up at his brother and at Klaus and Elijah who were both smiling.
"Good, tomorrow morning. Let's get them both in here and let's see what we can do." Klaus said, nodding at Stefan who sighed out a breath, looking down at the financial statements that were making his head hurt because the loss of money for the company was becoming a huge problem and of course all he had was himself to blame for it.
"Okay." He replied simply, telling them all that they were dismissed and to get back to work because he knew that to get Dasells back into the game of being successful in the large and scary cooperate world. They all had a long road ahead of them.
"Hold on! I'm coming." Elena shouted at the door, running towards it with her hair a mess and a stain on her navy blue shirt as she opened the door and was face to face with Katherine who looked as if she just walked out of a runway show. Her long curly locks flowed down her back. She was wearing a black blouse and a pair of white high heels along with a white pencil skirt, her Louis Vuitton gray and white checkered purse slouched over her shoulder.
"What are you doing here?" Elena asked her, looking down at the small black monitor that was around her left ankle.
"Oh, relax. Lexi said that it was fine that I came over. She's actually the one who drove me here." Katherine pointed out, turning around and waving at Lexi who rolled down her window and shouted out. "One hour, Katherine. You get one hour and if you try to run. I won't hesitate to throw you into a jail cell." She vowed, smirking a little and waving at Elena.
"You look like you could use a makeover." Katherine quipped, hearing Elena shut the door behind her and lean her hands against it, rolling her eyes.
"What do you want, Katherine? You know, if you're here to harass me or to try and build some sort of relationship, making fun of me isn't the right way to do it." Elena said, watching her sister, pivot on her heels. She looked down at the ground while sighing out a breath.
"I'm here to talk about last night and what you said. You know, about aunt Jenna and mom." She told her, seeing as Elena pushed away from the door and locked her eyes on to her sister.
"I meant what I said last night, about not knowing about you. Because, I didn't know about you at all until just a few months ago. Our dad had a picture of him and a newborn baby girl in his wallet for years and I never asked him who it was. I figured that it was a baby photo of me or something. Since, all babies seem to kind of look alike when they're born. But, now I know it was you. Dad and Jenna were keeping mom's secret about you. They knew. Granted, dad took his secret to the grave with him when he died a few years ago. But, Jenna she never told a soul." Katherine explained, walking into the living room of Stefan and Elena's new home and sitting down on their dark brown suede couch, running her hand over the fabric.
"Why are you telling me this now?" Elena asked, looking down at Katherine as she crossed her arms over her chest.
"Because, I want you to know that John, our dad. That even though you might not think that he loved you. I think he did. Elena, he kept that picture with him for a very long time and he had to secretly battle with the guilt of siding with our mother on giving you up. The day he died, he told me to keep it. And, as for aunt Jenna. She didn't tell anyone that our mother had another daughter because she was afraid of losing mom's trust. I'm not making any excuses for what our mom did to us, separating us and keeping us apart like she did. But, what I'm going to tell you is this. That this isn't between you, me and our brother. This is between just us because I know it's going to take many years for us to fix things. However, I want to try and earn your trust back and build a relationship with you." She explained, noticing as Elena's eyes lifted so that they were locked on to hers.
"So…" Elena's voice trailed off as she sat across from Katherine anxiously, tapping her fingers against her knees.
"So, this is the house where you and Stefan live now, huh?" She asked, looking around the sprawling open floor plan with the large bay window in the living room, the walls painted a light yellow with white trim. Katherine leaned back into the cushions. Quietly noticing that neither Stefan or Elena had any personal pictures together.
"Yeah. He bought this house a long time ago, I guess. Stefan said that he had wanted to live in it with you and sell the 10 bedroom one that's closer to the city." Elena explained, hearing Katherine laugh a little.
"I wouldn't have been cut out for living in the suburbs. I'm a city girl." She stated, folding her hands into her lap and continuing to look around.
"I know that you probably won't believe me when I say this to you. But, I'm really sorry for everything that I put you both through and that it's nice to finally see you both happy. Maybe being away from the city, away from all the chaos that's there. It might be good for both of you." Katherine told her, watching as Elena brushed a strand of her hair back behind her ear.
"I'd like to think so. This place is a fresh start and it's what we both need. What we all need actually." She said, seeing Katherine's eyes rest against the ring on her right hand. But, the question that she wanted to ask was cut short the moment her cell phone rang and she saw Elijah's name flashing across the screen. Katherine sighed, debating with herself to answer it or not. Because, for the briefest of moments, sitting in the living room with Elena. She felt as if they were finally connecting with each other.
"Speaking of a fresh start, Elijah's supposed to go talk to Rose and a judge today, to sign the last of the divorce papers between them. They're trying to get them finalized. But, in the state of Chicago, a divorce finalization can take anywhere from six months to a year. " She admitted, noticing Elena's eyebrows lift and before she could say a word, Katherine cut her off.
"He's a good man, Elena. Elijah has made a lot of mistakes and I don't condone him cheating on his wife with me because it wasn't fair to her. I realize that now, that I ruined their marriage because not only was I the other woman. But, I fell in love with him." Katherine told Elena, glancing up at her sister as she continued to talk.
"Elijah and Rose were married for a long time and I ruined their marriage by getting in between that. Elijah claims that he and Rose we already having lots of problems before I got involved with him. Just like you did with Stefan. Granted that Stefan and I, we were already falling apart years before you came into the picture. But, what all of us did to each other, it was inexcusable and now, we all have to live with the consequences of our actions. I'm not a bad person, none of us are. We've all just made some really bad mistakes." Katherine explained, seeing Elena swallow the lump in her throat as she nodded her head.
"Katherine, as messed up as this all is. We couldn't help who we fell in love with. You saw something in Elijah that made you love with him more than you should have. And, I saw something in Stefan that made me realize how great of a man he is." Elena added, sighing out a breath as she thought about it all.
"We messed up, I know we all did. But, we need to move past this and learn to live our lives in a different way now with all of our flaws and consequences." Katherine replied.
"I love him. I love Stefan and that's why I didn't want to give up on him at first. I acted like I was you for so long because I was afraid of what would happen if he found out. But, eventually I knew that he deserved to know the truth about me. So, I told him. I was afraid that he won't love me for who I really am." Elena admitted suddenly, getting up from her seat.
Katherine watched as Elena wiped her paint covered hands off of her jeans and turned towards the kitchen, stopping for a minute before she turned back around to face her sister. "What are you going to do once Elijah is divorced from Rose?"
She could see the small smile form across her sister's lips as she sighed out a breath before replying. "We're both going to move on with our lives, like you and Stefan are trying to do here. I'm going to take my son, Ethan. And, we're moving far away from the city. Where Elijah and I are planning on buying a house someplace nice."
Katherine looked up at Elena. As awkward as this conversation was, she was curious as to what her plans with Stefan were as well. "So, what about you and Stefan?" She asked.
Elena uncrossed her arms from her chest, walking into the kitchen and grabbing two bottles of water before she walked back into the living room, handing Katherine a bottled water before sitting back down again. She laughed, "This is awkward you know. Talking about our future plans like this. Like, either of us actually give a damn. But, I want you to know that I do, Katherine. You're my sister and since we need to get to know each other. Talking about the men in our lives is all a part of it as well." Elena opened her bottle, taking a sip of the ice cold water. Katherine watched her put it down before she cleared her throat and stated. "Stefan wants to get married and he wants us to start a family together. After the shooting, I got told by the doctor that I might not be able to have kids, ever. Although, I got some good news the other day. I went to a fertility clinic and they ran some tests. I have a chance to get pregnant and to have a healthy baby." She confessed, watching Katherine's eyes grow teary eyed a bit at the thought.
She leaned forward and grabbed a hold of Elena's hand, locking her eyes on to her. "I know that I shouldn't be saying this. But, I want you to know that whatever you need in the future and that from now on, along with Jeremy. I'm going to do everything I can to make it up to you and that I want to be in your life." Katherine said with pure sincerity and Elena could tell just by the look in her eyes that she meant it.
Katherine watched Elena place her left hand on top of Katherine's and with a small smile she softly stated. "I want us to be in each other's lives from now on too. That's why we need to go talk mom, Katherine. We need to put this behind us and I know we're still going to have hard days. But, that's what being a family is all about. Isn't it?" She asked, hearing Katherine laugh a little. Being a family, she thought. She never really had that growing up, even with their own brother Katherine had felt so estranged when she had gotten back from the boarding school that truthfully deep down, she hadn't had been a part of a family until she had met Caroline, Stefan, Rebekah and everyone else in her small inner circle.
"Yeah, it is. And, you're right. Listen, I'll call mom up tomorrow, you and I will go see her and we'll call Jenna to come too." Katherine reiterated the idea that Elena had spoken about earlier, releasing her sister's hand and looking up at the clock. She still had a half hour before Lexi was going to pick her up for her check in with her probation officer at the police station in downtown.
"Okay." Elena replied, leaning back into her seat and glancing over at her twin sister. "Since you still have a half hour. Tell me about your son, Ethan. I am his aunt by the way. Which allows me to know more about him." Elena said with a bright smile, watching Katherine's face light up at the change of topic.
She grinned, crossing her legs and inhaling deeply before she began. "He's a sweet kid, he's funny and kind. He's stubborn like I am and he's so full of life. I haven't been the best mom to him. But, I want that to change. I want to give him a fresh start too. I want my son to grow up without hearing all these nasty things about his mother. So, I'm trying. I'm trying even harder now to fix things. You know, when Ethan came along. I was forced to grow up fast and I did everything I could to protect him. I didn't protect him in the smartest way I could. Because all I wanted was to keep him out of the limelight and away from all the gossip. Although because of what I did, it all backfired. To be honest though, my son is the best thing that has ever happened in my life and I want to prove to him that I'm never giving up on the two of us." She explained, seeing Elena wipe away a few tears as she gave her a soft smile.
"I'm sure he knows you're trying your best, Katherine." Elena stated.
Katherine shook her head, sighing. "Yeah. But, it's still not good enough. I don't want him to live with mom and somewhere down the road, remember all the times that I wasn't there for him. I want to put all of this behind us and I want to be there for my son, Elena. I know you're not a mother so you wouldn't understand. But, it hurts me to know that I've failed him by not being in his life right now. And, because of that…." Her voice trailed off as she inhaled a sharp breath. "I have a lot of making up for lost time to do with him." She said, leaning back into her chair and closing her eyes, feeling as the tears that Katherine was trying to keep away began to fall.
"You'll get there." Elena softly whispered, reassurance in her voice as Katherine opened her eyes with a tearful gaze and spoke. "I just don't want him to hate me for the stupid choices that I've made."
"He won't." Elena said, glancing up at her sister as the room fell silent and she too choked back her tears when she added in. "Forgiveness takes a long time. But, if you're willing to work towards it with the people you care about. Then, it's the best gift that you can give yourself and them."
"I couldn't find a babysitter for her." Caroline stated, walking into Klaus's office at Dasell's and seeing him glancing up at her the next morning as she stepped through the doors with Sarah's arms and legs tightly wrapped around her body.
"Hi daddy!" Sarah exclaimed excitedly, nearly jumping out of Caroline's arms and straight into her father's lap as he kissed his daughter on the cheek and then kissed Caroline when she bent down towards him.
"It's fine, I do however have a meeting in about two hours with the guys and with Katherine and Elena." Klaus remarked, watching Caroline place her red Marc Jacobs purse down into one of his office seats, across from his desk as she turned her head to give him a confused look. "What did you just say? I could have sworn you just said Katherine and Elena."
Klaus chuckled, smiling just slightly as he leaned over to give Sarah a coloring book he kept hidden underneath all of his work papers for the rare occasions when Caroline had to drop her off at the office so that she could be with him almost all day. "That's exactly what I said." He replied, seeing his wife's face fall.
Caroline pulled out a bag of cracker gold fish, animal crackers, two juice boxes and a mini ipad for her daughter to play with as she placed them all on top of Klaus's desk. "Well, I hope you have fun with the bickering twins. I have to go meet with Rebekah."
Klaus's eyebrows lifted and his lips pursed together. "Rebekah? I thought you and my sister weren't on speaking terms. From her last text message to me, she kind of still hates you." He stated as Caroline glanced over at him.
"I know. But, we're trying to work past that." She pointed out as Klaus laughed a little, glancing down at Sarah who was contently coloring in her father's lap.
"You're trying to move past that. And, my sister isn't. So, you're planning her baby shower. Because, that idea came to you late last night after you two fought and because no one wants my mother around to plan it. Especially, not my sister."
"That's not true. I've met your mother, a few times. And, she seemed nice to me. Remember when Sarah was born and she sent us that fruit basket?" Caroline asked her husband as Klaus nodded. "I remember. Two weeks later, she showed up on our doorstep with loads of gifts for Sarah and telling you that she was surprised that you didn't already have a nanny taking care of our newborn daughter."
Caroline sighed out a breath. "I think having your mother here to help Rebekah out would be nice."
Klaus sighed. "Yeah, that's until Rebekah were to get sick of her."
"Look, I'm going to go talk to Rebekah about it. I'll be back in a few hours to pick Sarah up." She remarked, blowing them both kisses and telling Sarah to be a good girl for her father before she turned to open the door back up to Klaus's office.
"What about my board meeting, Caroline. I can't take Sarah into this meeting with me, Stefan won't be happy with that!" He exclaimed with a bit of anger as she turned back around and shrugged her shoulders.
"Sure you can, honey. I'm sure Stefan will understand. Besides, just give her some crackers and some coloring books. She'll be an angel." Caroline smirked, adding in that she loved them both before closing the door behind her and leaving Klaus and Sarah all alone.
Once Caroline was gone, Sarah placed her hand underneath her chin and gazed up at Klaus with a curious look. "Daddy, what's a board meeting?" She asked.
Klaus shook his head, leaning them back into his seat as he placed his arms around his daughter and sighed. "Sweetie, it's a very important thing that grownups have when they need to talk about a business." He tried his best to explain to his almost 7 year old daughter.
"Like a party?" She asked, hearing him laugh as he shook his head.
"Yeah, it's a big party." He replied, placing his hands over his face in frustration while he thought about the look on Stefan's face the minute he walked into the meeting with Sarah in his arms.
"Come to yell at me some more?" Rebekah asked with sheer annoyance in her tone, glaring at Caroline who had a plate of brownies in her hands, silently hoping that they would smooth over the atmosphere and the conversation they were about to have.
"I brought food. I know you like chocolate and that the brownies from that bakery that's across from Dasell's is one of your favorites. So, I bought you brownies." Caroline said hesitantly, stepping inside of the house as she watched Rebekah turn around, taking the plate and observing the 10 chocolate covered gooey brownies. "You didn't sprinkle any laxatives over the frosting while on your way over. Did you?" She asked, hissing out her words.
Caroline ran her hands through her hair, apologetically glancing up at her. "Rebekah, I'd never do that to you. I'm your friend." She stated.
Rebekah angrily locked her blue eyes on to Caroline's. "You were my friend." She corrected.
"Please, let's just move past this and start over. I'm sorry, okay. I'm sorry that I've been a shitty friend, that I haven't been here for you when you needed me and that I threw one of the most important friendships in my life away over stupid things. We grew apart, Rebekah. God damn it! We grew apart and that's the problem here. You won't let me back in. It's like you refuse to let me or Katherine back into your life." Caroline shouted at her, watching her former best friend place her hand on top of her baby bump, rubbing her stomach as tears quickly spilled over her cheeks.
"Damn hormones!" Rebekah sighed out a shaky breath before yelled back at her. "Because you didn't earn it! Friendships are gained through trust and they aren't built on lies, Caroline! You keep saying you're sorry and acting like we're going to just fall back into the friendship we once had. But, here's the truth. It's not that simple!"
Caroline closed her eyes, inhaling through her nose before she replied in a bit of a calmer tone. "So, tell me what can I do to gain your trust back. So that we can rebuild our friendship."
Rebekah moved her hands away from her stomach and towards her hips, tapping her foot against the tiles in the kitchen. "And, why would you want to do that?" She asked with a glare.
"Because I messed up and because I care about you. I miss you, Rebekah. I miss having someone besides Klaus to talk about everything with. I miss going out with you and Katherine and just spending time with you. I just want us to be close again." She disclosed in an anguished tone. It hurt Caroline knowing that the friendship the three of them had once so long ago held dear was now destroyed by all of their own selfish actions.
Caroline watched Rebekah pinch the bridge of her nose, closing her eyes tightly and taking a moment to absorb everything that Caroline had just told her before speaking again. "You really think that planning my baby shower is going to help bring us closer and help fix this?" She asked.
Rebekah could see the hopefulness in Caroline's eyes as she stepped forward and placed her hand gently against her arm, smiling even more when Rebekah didn't step back. "I promise you that I'm going to make it up to you and that so is Katherine. We'll take it a step at a time. And, I think that if you agree to let me plan this and throw you an amazing shower for you and the baby that it'll be a step in the right direction."
Sighing out a breath, Rebekah took a step back and eyed Caroline up and down. She was too tired to argue any longer and so she finally gave in. "Fine. But, under one condition. If you have my mother come into town for this little party. Let's make sure that she leaves within 48 hours. Because, there is only so much of that woman that I can take."
Caroline grinned, abruptly pulling Rebekah into a tight hug as she happily agreed. "Okay, I promise. 48 hours will be maximum for mama Mikaelson."
"Alright, let's get star-." The opening of the door to a conference room that overlooked most of the city below them, stopped Stefan mid sentence as he looked over to see Sarah waving at him and excitedly screaming "Uncle Stefan!" the minute that both her and Klaus walked in.
Klaus could feel his heart racing as he glanced over at Stefan who looked less than amused that Klaus's young 6 year old was joining in on their very important meeting in regards to Dasell's.
"Hi sweetheart!" Stefan exclaimed, bending down and scooping Sarah into his arms as he glanced over at Klaus with a completely stunned look on his face. Stefan stroked Sarah's cheek with his finger, smiling at her and adjusting her in his arms. "Honey, how about you sit right next to uncle Damon for a moment and I'm going to talk to your daddy. How's that sound?"
Sarah stood straight on her foot, pulling down her turquoise dress and adjusting her silver necklace as she looked around the large table and frowned. "Daddy said this was a party, where's the cake? All you guys have are healthy looking donuts and not chocolately muffin things." She observed.
Damon who was drinking a glass of water nearly choked on his drink as he coughed out a breath and looked across the room at the little blonde and blued girl. "Um, Katherine, Elijah you two care to explain to Sarah here why we don't have any cake?"
"Sarah, sweetie. It's too early for cake." Elijah replied, watching Katherine shake her head as Stefan and Klaus stepped out of the room.
"What's your daughter doing here?" Stefan asked him with an unpleased look as Klaus sighed. "Caroline dropped her off."
Stefan ran his fingers through his hair, locking his eyes on to Klaus. "Well, tell your wife to come and pick her up." He replied.
Klaus bit down on his lower lip, crossing his arms. "It's not that simple. She and Rebekah are talking about stuff, fixing things and she didn't want Sarah there. Also, she couldn't find her a sitter. So, she dropped her off with me for the day." Klaus shrugged, hoping that Stefan would understand and just let Sarah stay. Because, the last thing that Klaus wanted was to have to call Caroline and tell her to come and pick their daughter up.
Stefan frustratingly pinched the bridge of his nose, exhaling deeply. "Fine, she can stay. As long as she stays reoccupied and doesn't disrupt this meeting. It's very important, Klaus. This meeting is very important." Stefan declared, turning back towards the door and opening it widely just as they both heard Sarah announce. "Uncle Elijah, why is auntie Katherine sitting next to someone that she looks lots alike?"
Damon laughed, causing both Katherine and Elena to look at each other as Elena smiled and replied. " My name is Elena. And, your auntie Katherine and I are sisters."
Sarah scratched her head, looking a little thrown off by the new information that she had just learned. "Oh, so do you both give kisses to uncle Stefan. And, does uncle Stefan give kissy faces to you both?"
The room went dead silent. Damon and Klaus the only two finding Sarah's question funny as Elena felt her cheeks turn red and Katherine bowed her head down, completely mortified.
"Sweetheart," Katherine paused. She had been in Sarah's life since the little girl was just a newborn. So, most of the time. Katherine knew how to handle most of the little girl's silly questions. However, this one threw her for a loop.
"Sweetie, Your uncle Stefan is too busy to make kissy faces at anyone." Katherine rattled on, hoping that she would drop the subject when she suddenly nudged Elena under the table. "Sarah, how about you and uncle Stefan go and get another one your juice boxes from your daddy's office and then we can start." She replied, glancing over at Stefan who looked as if he was having one of the worst days of his life.
"I'm not thirsty though. But, I do want to sit down again." She declared, taking a seat in the middle of her dad and Damon who was smiling from ear to ear, mouthing to Klaus that this was the best board meeting ever.
"Okay, let's all begin." Stefan announced, standing in front of the large projected screen behind him as he looked around the room and noticed that Sarah was raising her hand up high, grinning at him.
"Yes, Little miss Sarah Mikaelson?" He asked, watching her face light up when he called her that, because it made her feel special.
"Uncle Stefan," She began to say, taking a bite out of one of the muffins on the table and wiping her face with a napkin before she loudly disclosed . "Why can't we have lollipops and chocolate for breakfast at this party? These muffins are gross!"
A/N: So, a lot of stuff happened in this chapter. But, I feel like it needed to happen like that. Anyways, hope you all liked it. Also, I really don't know why I didn't add more of Sarah into this story..She's such a great little kid- providing some much needed funny moments.
Please, if any of you have any suggestions for more things you'd like to see happen, leave a review and let me know. I love playing off of ideas that my readers give me and I love reading the reviews you all leave on here. They do make me happy. :)
-Until Next Time!-