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Chapter. 27

Christmas

"Sister is it time yet?"

" Yes it's been a thousand years I'm going to wake up and resurrect you then reunite us with our family."

A brown haired little boy nods and looks up at his blonde haired sister.

Xxx

Elijah wakes up in a strange room and looks around there's a bookcase in the corner, a desk off to the side, it's his old room in the same house. He goes out into the living room and sees Rebekah with hope. " Why are we here, and why did you snap my neck?"

Rebekah turns away from playing with hope to look at her big brother. " We needed somewhere where no one would find us. Elijah you killed a dinner full of people plus you keep having a hallucinations."

"All of my hallucinations are about Katerina being alive."

Rebekah doesn't make eye contact with Elijah.

Xxx

Liz wakes up in her hospital bed and sees Damon sleeping in a chair in the corner." Damon, I thought you died?"

Damon stretches awake " No just sent back to 1994, remember we met in 1994. Oh that's right I compelled you to forget me."

"Why would you compel me, in 1994 I had just given birth to Caroline showing her picture to everyone and was married to Bill. I wasn't even carrying my gun I was on maternity leave."

"I had been drinking from Zack's pregnant girlfriend Stefan confronted me while talking with you, so I compelled you."

Liz sighs and looks at Damon like seriously. " You should not of compelled me, I need a favor from you."

" I will look out for Caroline as I am one of the only people who know about Caroline's secret relationship with our sire."

Liz looks surprised she knows Caroline tries to avoid Damon if possible, it never worked when she was friends with Elena but now she has new friends and doesn't have to be around Damon. " She told you?"

" I figured it out, Caroline dating Klaus I find it very amusing."

" I need to borrow your phone."

Damon looks confused " Why you have your own?"

" I need a number from your phone and would you refuse a dying woman?"

Damon pulls out his phone and hands it to her. Liz goes through the contracts and finds the one she is looking for.

Xxx

Klaus was getting ready to finally see his daughter when his phone rang. " Damon if you got another werewolf bite ask Caroline she has bottles of my blood."

Damon looks over at the sheriff he didn't know she was going to call Klaus. " It's actually sheriff Forbes."

That stops Klaus from packing. " Sheriff Forbes, Caroline told me what's happened to you I will compel the worlds best doctors to find a cure for you."

Liz smiles it's the thought that counts. " Thank you I think, why would you do that for me?"

Klaus puts Caroline's Christmas present in his suitcase securing it so it won't break. " You are important to Caroline and Caroline is important to me and I hate to see her sad."

Liz didn't realize how much Klaus cared about her daughter until now. "You really care about Caroline."

"Sheriff Forbes I have been alive for a thousand years I have met countless princess, queens, empresses, warriors and none have been as beautiful or as strong as Caroline she deserve to be treated like a queen and I will spend the rest of my immortal life giving Caroline everything she wants in life."

Liz smiles she couldn't ask for a better response. " I need you promise me one thing."

" Of course."

This is hard for Liz to say she knows this is hard for Caroline " When I'm gone she is going to need you more than ever help her pick up the pieces and move on make her smile promise me you will do that Klaus."

Klaus knows this is going to be hard for Caroline. " I promise and I never break a never break a promise to a Forbes woman."

Liz threw the tears smiles " Thank you Klaus."

Xxx

Liz hands the phone back to Damon when Caroline comes in the room. " Caroline I thought you were supposed to be on your way to New Orleans."

Caroline hands her mom a cup of green liquid. "I couldn't leave without saying goodbye."

" What is this?"

Caroline trying to be brave so her mom can't see how this is tearing her up inside. " A kale smoothie the employee kitchen didn't have a juicer but they do now. It's good for cell repair and for slowing cancer you know it's not to late I can still cancel my trip."

Liz puts the cup on the table and takes both of Caroline's hands in hers. " Caroline I'm fine go have fun I want you to live your life."

Caroline looks over at Damon " I'm trusting you to keep her alive when I'm not here."

"Blondie I want your mother to survive just as much as you do."

Caroline turns back to her mom as Damon is leaving. " Are you really going to be ok in the protection of Damon you know it's not to late for me to compel a doctor and have you and the doctor travel with me."

Liz looks up at her daughter " Go have a fun Christmas you can face time and show me what Klaus got you you can give me a tour of the house in New Orleans."

Caroline nods and hugs her mom " I love you."

Liz smiles back at her " I love you too."

Xxx

Kol and Davina are in Kol's car driving to Arkansas when Davina's phone rings. " Yes Marcel."

" Where are you, I went to your house and your neighbor said you put some bags in a Lamborghini and left."

Davina looks over at Kol who raises his eyebrows. " Kol took me on a Christmas vacation were going to Colorado, to ski and snowboard. Kol's going to teach me it's going to be fun."

Marcel doesn't like this. " D being around them is one thing but going on vacation with them out of state is another thing. I know the Mikaelsons better than anyone I don't trust Kol at all and I don't trust him with you. I wish you would of told me about this."

" I don't have to tell you everything. You saved me from the witches and I'll always be grateful to you for that but who I decide to hang out with should not be approved by you."

Xxx

Klaus, Elijah and Rebekah are in the living room when a black Lamborghini pulls up the driveway. " Nik I think someone found us."

Klaus vamps outside vamp face already on when Kol and Davina get out of the car. " Kol how did you find this place?"

" A little bird told me, plus I would not miss this Christmas for the world."

Elijah and Rebekah have heard Kol and come outside. Rebekah throws her arms around Kol's neck and hugs him. " Your alive."

" I am you can thank Davina for my return to the living."

Xxx

Caroline pulls up to the mansion, Klaus told her to go to in Arkansas and gave her direction to the mansion. She pulls up in her convertible with Katherine, Nadia and Stefan in the backseat hiding with Enzo in the passengers seat. " Merry Christmas I have presents."

Klaus looks confused and Caroline kisses him. "Elijah your present first."

There is a blur then standing in front of Elijah is Katherine in black pants, black lace tank top and a leather jacket with black ankle boots " Ta Da."

Both Klaus and Elijah are staring at the doppelgänger Klaus in angry voice. " Katerina."

Elijah In a loving voice. " Katerina, your alive or is this Esther playing a trick on me."

Katherine smiles at him and caress his cheek. " I'm real and I have someone I want you to meet."

In a second Nadia is standing next to her mother. " Elijah this is my daughter Nadia."

Elijah looks at Nadia then looks at Katherine. " Your real, I didn't know you had any children?"

" I had her before I met you."

Klaus still in shock speaks. " How did I not know you had a daughter, I killed your whole family and hunted you for five hundred years."

Katherine looks over at the hybrid. " I love our history, the only reason we met was because I had Nadia out of wedlock and my father wouldn't even let me hold her and gave her away to another family and shunned and banished me to England."

Xxx

Caroline smiles at her best friend reuniting with the man the man she loves with her daughter next to her. " Rebekah I have a present for you too."

Rebekah looks intrigued when another blur rushes out the car and in front of her stands Stefan "Rebekah."

Rebekah smiles at him and throws her arms around his neck. " Stefan."

Caroline smiles at her friends reuniting with people they love. " And one more surprise for all of us Enzo."

Enzo comes out of the car and joins everyone.

Xxx

New Orleans:

In the upstairs of the Fauline cottage there is a locked door nobody goes in and nobody goes out. The room is covered in dust including the only thing in the room a coffin. The woman in the coffin opens her eyes.

Xxx

Arkansas

Caroline kisses Klaus again to get him out of his shock that Katherine is alive. " She's so beautiful can I hold her?"

Klaus hands Hope to Caroline still in shock. " My love what did you do?"

" What do you mean?"

" Katerina is alive how?"

Katherine has an arm over Elijah's shoulder. " I was never dead well actually I was for about twenty seconds but Nadia taught me the spell to travel myself into another body so I did I used Elena's body. This body is one hundred percent mine."

Klaus looks down at Caroline feeling hurt. " You lied to me."

" No I never said Katherine is dead."

" Did everyone know?"

Everyone except Elijah nods and doesn't make eye contact with him. He looks at Caroline, Rebekah and Kol. " How could you not tell me she was alive?"

Kol is next to Davina and Enzo he speaks up " You weren't going to tell me I have a niece."

Klaus glares at him " I would have eventually told you."

Xxx

Caroline hands him Hope back and takes a breath thinking if he has Hope in his arms maybe he won't be as mad with this next part. " Klaus because it's Christmas can you grant Katherine her freedom."

Klaus stares at her dumbfounded." Her freedom, I would rather kill her."

" Do you want your daughters first words to be kill, set an example for her show her that if someone wrongs you, you don't automatically kill them. She's my best friend and look how happy she makes Elijah."

Klaus looks at Katherine with Elijah and Nadia they are all talking Elijah is holding Katherine's hand and beaming from ear to ear he's hasn't seen Elijah that happy in a long time. " For you."

Xxx

"Katerina come here."

Katherine looks at him then at Caroline who nods " The last time you said that you bit me then gave me your blood to show Stefan your blood is the cure."

Klaus smirks remembering it was right after he daggered Elijah and broke his hybrid curse." Well I'm in a gracious mood."

Katherine stands in front of Klaus and Hope with Caroline next to him, Nadia and Elijah next to Katherine everyone is watching. " Katerina I grant you freedom you no longer have to run from me anymore."

Katherine falls to her knees in tears she is so happy Elijah, Nadia and Caroline bend down next to her " Congratulations Kat."

"Your free mom."

Elijah wipes some of Katherine's tears "Katerina we can have the life we've always dreamed of."

Katherine nods and kisses Elijah then turns to Caroline and hugs her. "In my five hundred years on this earth I have regretted a lot of things but never for one second do I regret turning you thank you so much."

Caroline smiles at her " Your welcome Kat because you turned me I became a better person."

Caroline gets up and kisses Klaus " Thank you that was really sweet of you to give Katherine her freedom."

" If she so as annoys me I will kill her."

Caroline sighs and looks at her boyfriend then at her best friend who is in the arms of the man she loves and with her daughter right next to her. Klaus let her have freedom but still wants her dead it's a work in progress.

Xxx

New Orleans:

The blonde woman in the coffin blows the front doors open and walks out, she flicks her hand and the fence flies off and lands across the street.

She walks though the city and finds a bell tower. She lights a circle of candles and sprinkles the ashes she has carried with herself for centuries. After chanting in Latin where the ashes were now stands a brown haired twelve year old boy in Viking clothes.

Xxx

Arkansas:

"Why do you have a bonfire ready?"

Kol looks over where Enzo is looking and sees in the middle of the yard Rebekah has built a bonfire. " Sister you remembered."

Rebekah smiles at her brother " Of course I remembered it is your favorite part of Christmas the holiday bonfire."

Kol smiles while Rebekah hands out pieces of paper to everyone and explains what to do. " You write down your wishes for each other to burn for luck."

"Well with this group we need luck: cancer, travelers, witches, werewolves trying to take back the city, parents coming back from being dead trying to kill us, dopplegangers."

They throw their slips of paper into the bonfire.

Xxx

Rebekah takes Stefan to the backyard. " I'm sorry I had to leave before you came back. The night you died the wolves took over the quarter and induced labor to Hayley. Hope was born that night and was supposed to be sacrificed to the ancestors that morning. Klaus and Elijah searched the cemetery where the witches were all night but could not find them. When they eventually found Hope she had a knife above her about to be sacrificed. Klaus had called me and told me to take Hope and hide, everyone was to believe Hope had died, the only ones who knew she was not dead was Klaus, Elijah, myself, Caroline, and Katherine. I longed to call you tell you I didn't abandon you I love you."

" I understand calling me might lead back to where you and hope we're living and you needed to protect her. I'm not going to lie it hurt coming back and not seeing you there and hearing that you left, I thought you had abandoned me. I tried to move on but you are too unforgettable I would lay awake at night thinking about you and what you were doing. I love you too."

Rebekah throws her arms around him and kisses his cheek. " Next time I have to run you are coming with me."

Stefan smiles at her and nods.

Xxx

Katherine finds Elijah in the living room " Elijah can we talk."

Elijah nods and gestures to the couch next to him. Katherine is being a little hesitant with him she knows he's been through a lot and is still dealing with some issues. " You never died, you've been alive this whole time. You and everyone led me to believe that the woman I've loved for five hundred years is dead."

Katherine looks away guilty she always thought Elijah would be happy to see her she never expected he would be so hurt by her presence. " After you left me in Mystic Falls and when Bon Bon wouldn't give me immortality I took out my anger on Elena. We fought and she shoved the cure down my throat. For the first time in five hundred years I was human and I hated it. I had a heart attack, my teeth were falling out, my hair was turning grey and was falling out, I was getting wrinkles, it hurt to punch people, I got sick, I was able to get drunk, had joint pains and had to pee every five minutes. I had a guy even more insane then your brother wanting me dead."

" You already had immortality why would you ask Bonnie?"

" I knew when you left me that you would be back you always come back. I have as many enemies as your family but unlike your family I can die, I don't want to die, what I said in Pennsylvania was true I love you Elijah. I don't want to die and leave you. I didn't tell you I was alive because you never came to see me on my death bed I thought maybe you were still upset at me from Pennsylvania. I wanted Silas/original immortality so I could show you that you could trust me. With that immortality and with my vampiric immortality I want you and Nadia."

Elijah looks over at her she's sitting next to him looking vulnerable which he has not seen since he met her in 1492. " Nobody told me you had taken the cure, turned human or were dying until after you were dead. If I had know you were human or dying I would of been there."

Katherine looks over at him. " I know what's been going on with you, I'm going to help you with your issues."

" The night we unwillingly had dinner with Esther, I smelled you in my room. Were you there?"

" Nadia and I were in your room looking threw your things. We also attending the party you and Klaus hosted for the supernatural community."

Elijah is in shock Katherine has been underneath his nose this whole time and he never realized it. " Hoe did I not sense or see you you were there."

Katherine smiles at him " Caroline and Davina had Nadia and I hidden from any Mikaelson looks. You came over to the bar and Caroline moved us to the dance floor."

"You and Caroline have gotten really close."

Katherine nods " I made her a vampire and she helped me become one too. Not only did she help me become me again but she's helped me become the mother I wished I had been for Nadia. I can't believe she found me, I searched every inch of Bulgaria in 1492 looking for her and have spend everyday since thinking of her."

Xxx

Caroline finds Klaus sulking in the dinning room table. " I'm not sorry for what I did, Katherine has changed. I didn't tell you because I knew the second you heard she was alive you would try to kill her. I'm not apologizing for what she has done for the last five hundred years but in the last year she changed. You and her have done horrible things in the past but your not those people anymore."

Klaus looks up at her clearly still mad." I'm more mad you didn't tell me. We have been together for months, sleeping in the same bed every month for days and you kept this from me."

Caroline sits next to him and reaches out and grabs his hand. " I know and I'm sorry but I did leave clues you could of picked up on. I never said Katherine is dead, and I told you we were friends. Plus your keeping me a secret you don't want me meeting Marcel, walking around the city, or meeting people. So yes I kept Katherine is alive, but you call yourself a king and me a queen but your hiding your queen."

" I will introduce you to the city but not with Esther, Finn and Mikael trying to kill us/ turn us human." Klaus looks around " Where's Hope you had her last?"

" With Kol and Davina."

Klaus stands up fast " You left her with Kol."

" Relax Davina is there plus Nadia and Enzo, so Hope is well taken care of besides Kol is her uncle."

" I can't believe Katerina has a daughter and I never ran into her in the last five hundred years."

Xxx

Everyone is in the living room Caroline is keeping Klaus calm and away from Katherine. When his phone rings. " Yes Marcel."

Marcel is in the compound courtyard with Cami " You need to hide Cami, your mother is trying to body switch into her."

Caroline looks up at Klaus " If Cami comes here she will die, either from my hands or from Katherine, Nadia, Enzo, or even Stefan."

" Why would your friends kill her."

Katherine speaks up " Loyalty Caroline has become my best friend, I would happily kill her."

Enzo pipes up. " I've offered."

Klaus glares at Katherine looks down at Caroline who smiles at Katherine and nods at him telling him see she's changed. He returns to the phone. " I'm done with Cami she gave Mikael Caroline."

As Marcel is on the phone a blonde woman in black jeans and a black jacket with a twelve year old in blue jeans and a grey jacket. " Umm who are you?"

" Where are the Mikaelsons."

Marcel speaks into the phone " Klaus there's a woman and a boy here looking for your family. I'm pretty sure they are not Esther and Finn new bodies."

Klaus sighs he doesn't want to leave but the town won't stand still long enough for him to have a quick vacation. " I'll be there."

Klaus hangs up and goes to leave but Caroline grabs his arm. " Klaus your finally reunited with Hope and we are having a nice Christmas the two people at the compound can wait. After Christmas you, Rebekah, Stefan, myself, Kol, Davina and Enzo will return to the city to deal with city business while Elijah, Katherine and Nadia stay here and take care of Hope."

" I'm not leaving Hope in the care of Katerina and her daughter I just found out about."

" I won't let anything happen to her, I'm her aunt since I'm in love it's her uncle. If I didn't already love that little girl I would of exposed the secret that she was alive, but I didn't I kept your secret."

Klaus growls at Katherine. Kol leans over to Davina and whispers in her ear. " I told you before we left this would be fun."

Davina smiles and shakes her head " You did."

Xxx

New Orleans:

The blonde girl and the little boy go back to the bell tower. " What now sister?"

The blonde girl laying a map out on the table. " If they won't come to us we will go to them."

She pinpricks her finger and drips a couple of drops of blood on the map and chants in Latin. She points to the map " There that is where our family is."

Xxx

Arkansas:

Caroline climbs into bed and snuggles into Klaus side who looks down at her. " I'm still hurt you didn't tell me."

" I know but I thought I was doing the right thing. Hiding Katherine and making everyone think she is dead has been hard. There were so many times I wanted to tell you and twice where you almost found out."

Klaus raises his eyebrows in confusion. " The day of the forced dinner party with Esther I met you in the garage to distract you from going in the house so Enzo could get Katherine and Nadia out. When Esther gave me the choice to become human Katherine and Nadia were with Enzo, Davina and I. Katherine and Nadia searched the entire night for Elijah and found him but couldn't free him. It killed her that she could not free Elijah and make his suffering end. She didn't want to leave New Orleans until he was safe. I know you hate her for running and taking the moonstone but that was five hundred years ago. Both her and Elijah love each other a lot don't you want your brother happy."

" Fine tomorrow I will give her a chance."

Caroline kisses his cheek. " I promise no more secrets between us."

" No more secrets."

Xxx

Katherine finds Elijah in the library " Rebekah told me you are having hallucinations of me."

Elijah has his back towards her " Yes since Esther took me. The first one was right after she took me you were telling me you loved me and your going to get me out of here. The next one was you rescuing me you gave me blood I refused you pressed on. We've been in bed together, you standing right in front of me, we've had conversations but none of it has been real."

Katherine entangles their hands " this is real." She puts his other hand on her cheek. " I'm real. I will help you get over this. Your first hallucination wasn't actually a hallucination it was real I found you but couldn't free you. Nadia and I found you but we heard Esther coming so I whispered remember I love you, to keep you strong."

Katherine decides to leave Elijah to think everything over and to go find Nadia when Elijah reaches out and spins her around to face him. " I want real, I want you."

Elijah leans in and kisses their jackets off hitting the floor while he slides her tank top straps off she rips open his shirt. She wraps her legs around his waist and he backs her up to one of the bookcases.

He leans in to her neck and whispers. " Katerina." It tickles her neck sending a shiver down her spine.