Hey guys! I don't know why, but I feel like this chapter has no sense at all. Anyway, I hope you understand what I tried to do... Hope you like it!
Chapter dedicated to my friend Romina
Klaus' POV:
I've lived sort of 31 billion and 536 seconds in my thousand-years-old life but this stupid witch chose the most wrong one to appear in my life and bother me. Why was it just in time that Caroline was going to say 'YES' to our future together? Well, at least I hope that was the word she was about to say.
I sighed without knowing exactly what to do. Usually I could handle these situations easily, but not this time. There were two lives that depended on me now and I was afraid of screwing up everything. I wasn't fighting only for me anymore, I was fighting for my family.
Caroline's sweet eyes moved from the little pendant in her hand to the door, staring the witch with curiosity.
"Oh, I see that I've arrived in the wrong time" the witch said and I got up from my knees, staring her with anger.
"Get out of here!" I did my best not to yell and wake up my newborn son.
"Nah… This is about to get interesting" the witch mumbled back, with a gaze on the small crib near Caroline's hospital bed.
I greeted my teeth and narrowed my eyes, feeling them changing of color and my wolf features were coming up with my anger.
"Who are you?" Caroline asked and the witch grinned.
"Oh, he didn't tell you…" she took a few steps closer and I used my vampire speed to position myself in the middle of her and my family. "I wonder what else he didn't tell you" she added, drawing a circle in my chest with her forefinger. I couldn't tell if she was doing that to tease Caroline or to prepare herself to do some dark spell on me. Caroline frowned and I could see the confusion in her eyes.
"Don't listen to her, Caroline. She's playing with your head" I said, grabbing strongly the wrist of that cold hand in my chest and twisting it. She screamed with pain and before she could mumble spell words, I pulled her against the wall.
"You think you're the king, don't you?" she spat out, getting up again.
"I AM the king!"
"No, you're not… You're just a hurt boy who is afraid that everyone will see who you really are… A beast" she said and before I could move to rip her (even knowing she wouldn't die, but live in another body) she raised her hand to me. An invisible force made me fall on the ground and I growled when my wolf face came up with her magic "I know all your fears and nightmares" she said and I couldn't move. She was breaking my bones with that stupid magic.
"Maybe you can watch while I turn your family with dark magic" she turned around and Caroline was on her feet in front of the small crib.
"Don't. You. Dare. Touch. Him!" She shouted out, protecting our baby.
I had never seen those fire eyes on Caroline. She was so angry that I got scared for a minute. That was a whole new side of her that I didn't know.
"Do you want me to force you come out of my way?" the witch asked her.
I was concentrated in my queen's eyes ignoring the pain of my bones coming back in their place while I was getting up.
Caroline's eyes turned to yellow for a moment and suddenly they got gray as I saw only once, when I helped her turn into a wolf right after she became a hybrid too. Caroline growled with her fangs and wolf eyes and the witch took a step back with an horrified look.
"Grey eyes…" she mumbled and her voice failed.
Caroline growled again, approaching her. As much as I wanted to put myself in the middle of them, I was curious to know what was happening.
The witch vanished from the room before I could blink and Rebekah appeared in the same second that Henrik started crying.
"What was all that yelling about? Why is Caroline on her feet?!"
Caroline's POV:
Gently, I took Henrik from his small crib and started caressing his cheek. I didn't have words to explain how was the feeling when I first saw him. He was the most beautiful thing on earth and now, I knew that the love at first sight really existed. He fit perfectly in my arms and I felt like he filled an empty place in my heart that I didn't even know that existed.
I could see myself in him (physically) but mostly, I could see Klaus in him. My son was just a newborn, but I could totally notice Klaus' perfect features on his face. And his eyes… they melted my heart and made me surrender.
Klaus interrupted my admiration and held my arm, guiding me gently to the bed. I lay down with Henrik and he stopped crying when I wrapped him in a blanket that Klaus handed me.
"He's such an angel" I said, tracing very softly his two strands of fair hair with my index finger.
"Just like you" Klaus replied me and kissed my cheek "I'll have a word with Elijah. Will you be ok with him for a couple minutes?" He asked and I nodded, smiling for him. He kissed Henrik's cheek and got out, making a signal for Rebekah and she understood that she was supposed to look after me.
I heard Klaus' steps moving away on the hallway and Rebekah got closer to me "He looks like aunt Bekah" she said holding his tiny hand and we laughed. "What happened before I came here?" she asked and before I could tell her that I also didn't understand, I heard Klaus' voice somewhere far talking to his brother. He explained to Elijah something about a witch from Mystic Falls changing of body and I understood what happened. I just got a little upset with the fact that he didn't share his worries with me.
"Her eyes scared the witch?" Elijah asked.
"Gray eyes" Klaus observed.
"Caroline's wolf side has gray eyes?!" the surprised tone of Elijah's voice got me scared and I heard a sight. Probably Klaus'.
"I suggest you open your mouth and tell me what you know, brother" Klaus pointed out.
"Witches can't hurt creatures with gray eyes. They represent a pure soul and they say that would be 'too damaging to nature' since they are righteous creatures"
"Pure soul? Why haven't I heard about this nonsense before?" Klaus asked.
"It's rare to find pure souls. And maybe being evil as you are, you never could truly notice one. Usually the gray eyes only appears in werewolf form because animals are more pure than humans. Caroline's eyes only reflect what she is: righteous and loyal. Pure souls can't hurt someone without a good reason. If she ever killed, it was to protect a person or it was a consequence from her vampire instinct side. But she feels a bigger regret than usual vampires."
Rebekah looked at me and I noticed she was listening too. Henrik was sleeping again and I put my hair behind my ear so I could hear better.
"How about the witches that hurt her before? Like by Mystic Falls?" Klaus asked.
"She was carrying your child by then and she couldn't turn in wolf form. So, there was no way they could know about it"
"So, is Caroline safe from witches?!"
"Yes. If they hurt her, they will be punished with their lives"
Klaus' POV:
I opened the front door of our house and held it so Caroline could come in holding Henrik.
I couldn't deny the relief that I felt knowing that no more imbecile witches would try to hurt my queen. And for some obvious reason, I didn't get so surprised with her having 'a pure soul'. I sort of already knew that, just not in the way Elijah told me about. She always saw the good in people and especially in me.
There was a big strip in the living room written "Welcome home Henrik" with my sister's handwriting and she threw confetti on us when we entered home.
"This is unnecessary, sister" I said, annoyed.
"Someone is in a mood" she mumbled.
"Shhh… Henrik is asleep" I told her, guiding Caroline upstairs. I was more than excited to show his room to her. I opened the door close to (not mine anymore, but ours) bedroom.
Caroline smiled enchanted. As in the vision the witch gave me, Rebekah and I made the furniture all white, the walls a light blue and in one of them, I painted Henrik's face smiling to Caroline exactly like in the vision.
"This is perfect… So beautiful!" She said, laying him on his crib that I made myself. I opened one of the drawers next to it and took one of the blankets that Rebekah bought, to cover him.
Caroline and I stood side by side, holding the crib's grid and looking to our son. So tiny and he already had my heart. Caroline put her hand over mine above the grid and I looked at her.
"Yes" she gave me a shiny smile despite the tear that was rolling down her face.
"What, love?"
"Yes, more than anything, I want to marry you" her warm smile made me feel loved like I never felt in my life before. I kissed her hand and pulled her to a long and loving embrace. Then I held her chin and whispered "I love you, my queen" before kissing her.
My heart was complete. Caroline closed the empty spaces and the wounds that I had with her love and the amazing present that she gave me (the one that was sleeping like an angel in the crib).
Our kiss was interrupted by Rebekah' screams of celebration downstairs.
"If you think that you'll be the bridesmaid, you're very mistaken" I said knowing that she could hear me "Stefan already took that place" I laughed when Rebekah grunted of protest. My forehead was glued with Caroline's and we were staring each other, smiling of happiness.
"Hey, I'm listening!" Stefan's voice came from downstairs too.
"Good, now you already know that you have to find a dress" Caroline laughed too.
I ignored Rebekah still protesting and complaining and got back to my moment with my future wife. She closed her eyes before I pulled my forehead away from hers and I noticed she was tired. Passing my arm from behind her knees, I held her and took her to the bed, laying and covering her.
"Rest, my pure soul. You have to recover and we have a wedding to plan" I grinned, finally closing the circle pendant on her bracelet, admiring the ring I gave her months ago in her finger.
"I love you too, my king" she whispered before closing her eyes.
So... ? I want you to know that I just wanted to take the witch away because I can't kill her yet (I need her for something else in the story, I promise it is a veery good thing)...
Please, let me know what you think! I'd love to know too how would you guys like their wedding to be or what would you like to see in relation to Henrik. Tell me and I'll do my best to write it! :D Have a lovely weekend!
A kiss to Chile and Argentina ;)